Train Week

Summer continues to fly by, and we've wrapped up yet another week.  Train Week was one of my favorites so far.  As I mentioned in my previous post, we braved a restaurant with a train car dining room for dinner one evening.  Although it is still far from making a list of regular favorites, we did find better success by ordering off of the menu instead of choosing items off of the food line.  Landry and Shannon didn't mind the food, and loved the atmosphere. 

Posing outside with Daddy (Notice the cowboy boots with shorts - This was the secondary theme for the week.)

Inside - notice the train tracks immediately outside the window.  That track is quite active, but we didn't get to see a train pass by while we were there, much to Landry's disappointment.

On Saturday morning, I took the boys to the Rosenburg Train Museum.  It was a fun outing for both of them.  I'm not sure if they'd be as impressed a few years from now, but it was exactly the right size for them now - plenty to see and climb on, but not big enough to require more than an hour.  Here's Landry heading up the path to one of two train cars that we toured....again making a fashion statement with his boots and shorts.

Landry and Shannon outside the train car.

Inside the train car...

For the craft, I had high hopes of doing something like this:

Although it's hard to see the detail, all the train cars are made of fingerprints.  Landry and Shannon were too enthralled with the ink pad to do any stamping in a straight line, though, so we ended up with two pages of random stamps all over.  Oh well! For the books, we raided our own library and re-read a couple of favorites - Freight Train and Steam Train, Dream Train to name a couple.

Next Up:  Fish Week