Tuesday, December 13, 2011

What is green and yellow and goes vroom vroom?

A John Deer Tractor, of course!
How did you guess?
We had a 50th birthday lunch at our house on Sunday for Jay's mom. Jay's grandparents from Mosier came and brought Carter his Christmas present a little early. With weather in the gorge, you just never know when they can get back over here so they wanted to give it to him early. This little wonder of a tractor is from Jay's grandparents and two uncles and Lane. I don't think there are words to express how much joy this brought and is still bringing Carter!

He was napping when they arrived so we hid it in the kitchen when he first got up. Sometimes it takes Carter a few minutes to wake up and with all the people in his house, we didn't want to overwhelm him right away. Once he woke up a bit, Jay and Grandpa brought it around the corner. Oh my, was he surprised and excited! He had to check everything out. And may I add, this tractor is pretty amazing!

It has a real radio on it...like the exact same thing we would listen to in our car. Carter loves having his radio on when he is hanging out in his tractor. It has a pedal to make it go (do you like my tractor lingo?) and has two different speeds and reverse. It has a little trailor to haul all of his animals and arm rests that go up and down.

This little man is in heaven!

He loves to sit in it and do nothing. We can't have the battery hooked up without our supervision or else he would destroy our house by running into things. But he still loves to just sit in it and check everything out. He watches Mickey Mouse while sitting in his tractor every morning and pretty much spends every waking moment...sitting on his tractor.

Thank you Grandma, Grandpa, Dave, Grant, and Lane!!!! Carter LOVES his new tractor!

Rosy cheeks and bed head included in his first tractor ride on his new tractor.

Carter has loved tractors since his trip to Iowa when he was 15 months old and got to ride on all of Jay's dad's real tractors out in the corn fields. He gets so excited when he sees them, usually in books since we live in the city, but every once in a while for real as well. This was a dream come true for him :)

I must be honest here...
I am kind of glad he got his tractor before Christmas. If he was opening this gift as well as the gifts Jay and I got him...our gifts would look a little pathetic ;)

What a special gift from some special people! Thanks guys!

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