Thursday, January 20, 2011

Trains!

These pictures are from a couple weeks ago. We decided to go to a train store that is very close to our house where they have lots of train tables set up for the little ones to play with any time for free! It is the perfect cold, winter day activity.

William shows far more interest in trains than Lily ever did.

Lily is always there to help out her little brother (or for about 15 minutes when she let me know in no uncertain terms that this was a boring outing for her). William will probably enjoy the trains even more next year, and we will be looking for some William-only activities next year since we just found out that our school district is switching to full-day Kindergarten for everyone starting with the '11-'12 school year. Whoo hoo!!

There is a train track directly in front of the train store. It was about the cutest thing ever to see 20 little boys run over to the store-front windows and press their faces up against the glass when the store manager yelled, "Train!" William actually squealed and clapped when he saw the train.


We were then inspired to make our own train at home, using a few of our toy trains as models. We had lots of boxes left over from Christmas, so Lily chose which ones she thought would make good train cars and then designed everything from beginning to end.


William tries to figure out how to make this thing go.


I'll show you, little brother.


Oh, William! Not like that!


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