Tuesday, July 1, 2008

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!





5 comments:

Kathryn said...

Tommy's 2 now, right? Was the train museum in South Elgin or Union? He's getting so big. I wonder if FCVN is going to get together for the boat parade in Chinatown? I think that is in July. We are still in the Vietnam program, so we could still go. Hopefully, things will work out and current dossiers will be "grandfathered in". I guess we will just have to wait and see.

Dawn said...

Wow, what great pics. I LOVE the one of him waiting patiently for his train ride to begin. Oh and the ice cream one too! SO cute

meredith said...

tommy is getting much too cute.

Anonymous said...

tara-he just keeps getting cuter...
;O)
love him.

Anonymous said...

Wow it seems as if he is getting so big! What a great train experience!!