Christmas in April

The kids got to celebrate Christmas with their Gran-dad today.  Gran-dad arrived just in time for Gillian's nap.  I put Gillian down while the boys made a trip to Toys R Us.  Gran-dad wanted to get John a new bike for Christmas and we all decided it would be easier if John was there to pick it out and to try it out.  It was a good thing that Daddy went too, because they decided on getting John a eighteen inch bike instead of a sixteen inch bike.  This gives John a little extra space to grow too.  The boys brought John's new bike home and all three of them worked on putting it together.  John was very patient during the whole building process.  It didn't take too long, and luckily we had a really nice day today.  No one minded sitting and relaxing on the deck while the bike was built.  Gillian also got a new doll stroller.  I put that together when Gillian woke up.  The stroller is a double stroller so now she can push two babies at a time.  After the stroller and bike were built, we went to Dorbrook to test everything out. 

We got to the park and John went running towards the playground.  Gillian, on the other hand, loved pushing her baby dolls.  She walked all over the park pushing her stroller.  It took a little convincing from Mommy for Gillian to take a break and play on the slides.  John was running around playing and then all of a sudden we heard "John!"  And along came John's best friend from school Nick.  They gave eachother a quick hug and continued to play.  Gillian continued to play on the little slide, while Nick and John ran all over the playground.  Nick had to leave after a little while, but John still continued to have fun without his friend.    

After Gillian played on the slides for a little while, she decided to take baby for another walk.  Again, we walked all around the playground.  I had to keep an eye on her, because she is a little bit of a crazy driver.  She doesn't always pay attention to everyone around her.  She took her baby for a walk and we ended up by the swings.  She stopped the stroller, walked to the front and got baby out.  She walked to the slide.  I assumed that she wanted to push the baby in the swing for a little bit.  No, she wanted to go in the swing with baby.  She and baby loved the swing. 

After Gillian was done on the swing, John tried out his bike.  He did great!