xmas eve festivities

Xmas eve was on a saturday this year and started our four day adventure of visiting family and opening presents! WE went over to hubs's brother and sis-in-law's house. When I tell you there were a lot of presents, I mean there wasn't room for everyone in the living room to sit when it came time to open them. Big guy did very well. we got there around eleven and went right into running through the house screaming with joy while the adults fawned over big guy.

Then we sat down for lunch with a minimum of fuss. Following lunch, big guy proceeded to destroy his cousin's playroom, taking every truck, car, star wars figurine out of the lovely order it was in and on to the floor. It was extra funny b/c his cousin is kind of fussy about his toys! Big guy ran with the big kids all afternoon. When they went outside he went and collected rocks. When they played the wii, he slapped and yelled at the tv. When they opened presents, he ripped his to shreds too!

It was an awesome day. probably big guy's best gift was a set of geo-trax, which are plastic trains with train tracks. The trains have a remote that can control them either forward or backward and make fun train noises. Big guy is obsessed with it! And when hubs finally put the batteries in on tuesday to make the train move- big guy freaked, in a good way. Pure giggles while jumping up and down before grabbing the train off the tracks. Definitely a hit, but big guy hadn't seen anything yet!!!