One More Christmas

We went to Randy's parents' house on Sunday for one more Christmas celebration. Remember how Travis asked Santa for trucks, helicopters, and a firetruck? Well, we got him a truck and helicopter, and Me-Me and Pop obliged with the firetruck in a BIG way!

Travis opened all of his presents except for one, and Me-Me and Pop made him wait until everyone else had opened ALL of their presents before he could open his last one.

It nearly killed him waiting!

But then he saw what it was and oh my, was he excited! He said, "Santa listened to what I asked for! It's just like I wanted!" He had specified that he wanted a firetruck with a tall ladder and lights and a siren. And this one has...it...all. Yeah.

It's remote controlled and when it goes forward the sirens blare and the lights flash. Oh, and did I mention that it shoots water? Really. Me-Me and Pop keep toys at their house, and pretty soon this truck will make its way back to them. My fuse shortens by about half when sirens are the background noise.

And then when we got home we had a Toy Story moment: Travis' favorite truck up to now has been a flatbed semi tractor trailer that he received for his second Christmas. It was almost bigger than him at that point. He affectionately calls it Mack, like from the movie Cars. It has realistic steam pipes, bumpers, lots of chrome, and it has all slowly been pulled off. It's covered in stickers, and I wrote its name on a piece of paper for everyone to know and Travis taped it on with about half a roll of scotch tape, and then covered it with ANOTHER paper, so no one would see the name. (?) Anyway, definitely a favorite. Oh, and his trucks sleep. Often we have to take a bath with the bathroom door closed so we don't make too much noise and wake the trucks. So when we came home with this new truck, he had to have a place for it to sleep, and he wanted to move Mack so his new truck could take its place. I wanted to hug Mack and tell him it would be okay. Ridiculous, I know!

But seeing Travis face was priceless. My sister got a video, but the file is too large to load on blogger. Travis has seen the video about 25 times though!