Boys and their Toys....is it Christmas already????

We already know that I am in trouble with the boys in my life because my oldest one Brian loves having toys. Anything from golf carts to expensive vehicles he has to have the latest and the greatest! Although, there has been some restraint on his part lately. However, I can not say the same when it comes to our son Christian! Brian could not wait for this Christmas because he wanted to buy Christian an electric riding toy! He went out a few weekends ago and bought him one at Toys R Us. It was a daddy field trip because he took Christian and they tried all the different electric riders out in the store! I am suprised they did not come home with a Ferrari or a Hummer of some kind for Christian to ride around on. Anyhow, I told Brian to put it up with some of Christian's other gifts for Christmas. Well......that lasted all of maybe a week before Brian wanted Christian to test it out AGAIN in our driveway. I told him no, that Christian needed to wait for Christmas and he did not need this toy now, but I lost that battle. Brian diappeared one afternoon and when he came out from hiding he had the rider all put together! Which is a shock in itself that he put it together correctly and there were no extra parts left over! When Christian woke up it was like Christmas morning a month early!
We recently had a retractable fence installed in our driveway because it is very, very steep. We were scared that Christian would eventually end up in the lake across the street if we did not protect him some how from the driveway! This fence had been installed two days before our November Christmas celebration with Christian's new toy! This is only a look into the future and I now know Brian is never going to be able to contain himself. I am going to have to hide all the presents from him, even the kids!!! So back to the story..... Christian wakes up from his nap and Brian is so excited to give him this new toy. This new toy which by the way, he plans on only letting Christian test drive??? Yeah right that will happen! Everybody knows you can not give a toddler a toy, especially one he loves, and then take it back?? Christian fell in love right away...a riding toy that he just pushed a small button and off he went? Wow! His face lit up like our Christmas tree, the one that this toy was supposed to end up under!!!! Needless to say, it took awhile to understand that he had to hold the button down to ride contiously. He was a little jerky at first and I just knew he was going to fly off the back of that toy! However, he knows how to hold on pretty good! I was thrilled to find out that are fabulous fence was well worth it too because he drove right into it and there was not even a budge!!! Christian and Brian stayed outside for quite awhile playing with his new toy. I think Brian would have even tried to ride the toy...if he was only a little shorter he could have!!!! HA HA!!! Anyway, that toy has not been put away and it is just added to the ridiculous amount of toys our son has to play with! The electric rider is definately his favorite toy and I must admit I was wrong about it!!! I never thought at his age that he would be into something like that mainly because I did not think he would be able to figure it out! I guess he gets his smarts from is mommy!!! The rider is a hit!!! I only hope that Brian can contain himself a little better until Christmas or Christian will not have anything to open!!!!