Santa's on his way

We've been busy lately, and I haven't taken any pictures. Still unpacking. Christmas parties. Play dates. Fixing Stuff. Hanging pictures. Cleaning. I've spent at least 3-4 hours cleaning the jetted tub in our bathroom, most recently using q tips to scrub the jets. My advice to anyone building a house - don't put in a jetted tub! They really suck to clean. Gavin started back up with speech therapy. His therapist did an evaluation to see how he's doing. For expressive language he scored a 75, with an 85 being within normal range, putting his speech at a chronological age of 2 yrs 2 months. I'm happy with that. And he scored a 98 on his receptive language, which I expected. He has never had a problem understanding what we say to him. He even has started to understand the whole Santa thing. When asked what he wants Santa to bring him he says "choo choo." Always the same thing, except for yesterday when he was eating smores dessert pizza at the pizza buffet and we asked him what he wanted Santa to bring him. He pointed to the pizza. The last 2 mornings I have found Gavin looking out the window in his room when he wakes up. I asked him what he's looking for, and he said "ho ho ho. choo choo." Gavin has a word for almost everything now, it's just hard to understand what he's saying. It took me a while on Sunday to figure out he was calling the goodie bag he got from nursery "trick or treats". He still prefers to use sound effects a lot of the time instead of words. Instead of naming a type of animal he'll make the noise the animal makes. Instead of Santa it's ho ho ho. And he's still making all his truck sound effects. On the afternoons its been warm enough to go outside he likes to walk or ride his trike around our street picking up rocks, then puts them in his dump truck on the front porch to play with. He enjoys watching the teenage boys across the street from us skateboard, and does his own version by running sideways and jumping. Yesterday Gavin got his Christmas present from Uncle Tom - an unbreakable kid's nativity scene. Gavin flew the angels around for awhile, then noticed the 2 shephards with staffs, which he promptly used to attack each other and all the other nativity people. Jake called it the Quentin Tarantino version. And then Tyler tried to eat the baby Jesus. Welcome to my world. And Merry Christmas!