It was a Very Merry Cars-Christmas!

Well another year has come and gone. Max got more cars than he knows what to do with. Someone told me that they knew a person who used cars as rewards to potty-train their son. I think that's a great idea and maybe I will take some of his gazillion cars and use them for that.
On Friday we left Louisville and went down to Morehead to visit my family. We stayed with my dad and I made cabbage rolls that night to take to my mom's for the next day. Max had a blast with my dad, whom he is crazy about, and got a little too excited and was really hard to calm down for bed. We did finally get him to sleep at around midnight. On Saturday we woke up and went to my mom's for Christmas dinner and opened presents there. There are just 3 little kids in our immediate family, Steven, Max and Autumn, so they were really spoiled with gifts from everyone. They had a blast opening their presents and even Autumn, who is only 7 months old, really got into the commotion. It was the cutest! Max was good about opening his presents, but if he got half way into it and it didn't have anything to do with cars or trains he would toss it to the side and move onto the next one. Silly kid is OBSESSED with them right now! It's insane. He did get some really neat stuff from my family. On Saturday he got a tractor with a trailer, a big stuffed blue bear, playdoh, a read with me dvd thing, another book to go with that, a $50 giftcard to Wal-mart, a thomas the train load-n-go thingy, wooden letter blocks in a wooden cart, some leap frog magnet letters and numbers, a blow-up sled with a rope to pull it with (I cannot wait for snow!!!) and some clothes. Later that day we went up to my Aunt Charlotte's to visit with them for a while. Some of my cousins were there and my grandmother and another aunt. At their house, Max got a train mega-block set and a ball from my aunt Villie.
We had to leave to drive the two hours back to Louisville after all that. Curt was oncall for work, so we needed to get back into the city just in case. On Sunday, we went to Curt's grandparents and parents houses for Christmas Eve dinner. Curt's dad got Max an insanely huge car set to keep at their house. It has 50 cars in it!! There were SO many!! Max loved it of course, because we all know that he only has one thing on his mind lately, and that's cars, cars, and more cars. Those kept him occupied for most of the evening. Later Curt and I came back home to set up Max's Santa gift. Curt's parents watched him for us thankfully! Otherwise we would have been up till the wee hours of the morning trying to put that thing together. It looked so nice set up! I couldn't wait for Max to see it when he got up on Christmas morning.
On Christmas morning I got up first at 8am and got on the computer for a while. Max and Curt slept in for another hour. Finally after Curt got up, we went ahead and woke Max up to see his presents. We couldn't wait for him to see the big table in the living room!! He walked in and his eyebrows got all scrunched up. He was like, "what's this big thing doing in our living room??" It was hilarious!! He did start to check it out soon after that though, and realized that it was fun to play with. It has this motorized train on it, and every time we would turn it on, Max would get nervous and run over and hop on the couch. He's not so scared of it now, but he didn't really like it at first. He opened the rest of his gifts from us, both sets of the Cars movie characters, more little cars in his stocking, the movie Ice Age 2 (which he immediately had to put in and watch), two packs of markers, a wooden farm animal and some abc flashcards. He was mostly interested in all the cars and the two drawers on his train table. He kept putting all his cars in there and closing the drawers and then he would open it back up and climb in the drawers and sit in it.
I went and got breakfast at Hardee's because we haven't had food since earlier the week before. We just hadn't been home. Next year I will be more on top of things and have a better breakfast plan :) We started to get ready to go over to Curt's parents when Max decides to puke all over the floor. He's been doing that recently for no apparent reason. I really hope it's not the same thing as last year when he was vomiting all the time and we could never figure out why. But we finally made it to there house about an hour late because we had to clean our carpets and furniture. After dinner we all kinda relaxed and watched Charlotte's Web while some people napped. Then later we opened gifts from them. Max got a cute bear with clothes, a hot wheels semi with lots of little cars in it, more cars, some clothes and a book. Overall it was a nice day!
I have a ton of pictures, of course, and they can all be viewed here, Enjoy!!
Bowling Family Christmas and Christmas 2006