More Summertime Fun

Earlier this month we went to a Kane County Cougars game (our local minor league team) with our friends the Raschkes - Tommy and Nicholas had a great time chowing on popcorn and just running and running!

Most afternoons we fill up the kiddie pool and Tommy jumps in - here he's showing off one of his fake frogs.

This picture cracks me up - it looks like he is mad or yelling, but it was really just mid splash.....he looks like such a muscle man!

Serious Tommy

And lastly, the look I'm seeing a lot of lately - Tommy has learned that his pout will usually get him whatever it is that he wants.....unless it's another popsicle :)

21 Months

Enjoying one of his favorite meals - broccoli, cheese, ham, and peaches

And afterwards, we have a popsicle! Orange seems to be his favorite - and he now runs to the fridge and hangs on the door handles until he gets a popsicle.....or until I can drag him away to do something else.

Yet another haircut - this one is much shorter than the last, but it came with a lot of tears and screaming.

Checking out the frog fountains at the Arboretum.

Now that Tommy is 21 months old, do I have to start saying "he's almost 2" when people ask his age? How has the time flown by so quickly? Tommy has grown taller and has lost a lot of his baby fat, except for his chubby cheeks. He's talking more and more everyday, with his latest words being "happy, broccoli, Maggie (my mom's dog), and Aidan (the neighbor boy)."

A Boy and His Trains

Tommy has been having a lot of fun with his train table we purchased earlier this summer - at a garage sale for a great price! He could spend most of the afternoon playing with his trains - big, small, and he even puts cars and trucks and tractors on the table.



Some of his favorite things to do are run the trains all around the track we set up - here you can see the hill and he makes "chug" noises while the trains go up the hill and then "wheeeee" while they go down - yes, we watch Thomas the Train DVDs.












He's also really good at putting the animals in the "circus" cars - and he knows all of the different animals there are - elephant, pig, horse/donkey.

And when he gets tired of playing nicely, he usually crashes the trains together or if he's really mad about something, he throws them.

On Sunday we visited a very small train museum in a nearby town. Tommy fell asleep on the way there, and when he woke up and saw trains in front of him, he was thrilled.

Checking out an old interurban trolley car.

Getting ready for our big train ride.

And we ended the day with a trip to Dairy Queen where Tommy got his own baby size ice cream!