Gifts!

After going to a Christmas party at a friends house in mid-December, we discovered Lucas really liked some motorized dinosaur toys they had for their kids. As a result, I was out the next day to pick him up a dragon version of the toy. We ended up giving it--as well as several other gifts--early since we didn't see a point to waiting until Christmas. He still doesn't have any real idea as to what Christmas is, plus we were going to be flying to my dad's and didn't want to bring a bunch of gifts for him just to bring them all back. We did end up doing a mini-Christmas where we opened our gifts to each other (and the few remaining for Lucas) on the 22nd, I think. Those pictures will be in another post, probably the next one.

For now, here's Lucas with his new dragon.


Another of his early gifts was a new table. My mom was kind enough to get this for him. At first, we were going to get a fancy wooden one that admittedly cost way too much. However, the more we thought about it, the more we realized that this would be a table that would be used for eating, doing crafts, and lots of other stuff that weren't going to leave it in the best of conditions. As a result, a nice sturdy plastic table fit the bill.

Here, he checks out the table.


Not surprisingly, he found the screwdriver I used to put the table together much more interesting than the table itself. As you can see in the second picture, he picked up the idea of what it was used for pretty quick.



Of course, not long after I put the whole thing together, our little monkey found another way to use it, one that wasn't really intended.


These last pictures are from the same dinner as the popular "pizza in the pjs" video that I posted prior to our Florida vacation. We have one wacky little boy.