Last Friday we took the boys over to Woodland to see Thomas the Tank Engine. Joshua was really excited...and Nathaniel didn't really care. Which is why it was so funny once we got on the train and Nathaniel had a blast and Joshua was rather worried about the whole thing. The sides of the train were open (not enough that anyone would fall out and there was a roof overhead) and Joshua kept saying, "This ISN'T like the other train we rode on before!" (Last year we rode Amtrak from Davis to Sacramento (about 20 minutes tops) and went to the Railroad Museum.) By the end of the short ride, Joshua was liking it a little better.
Nathaniel giggled and grinned the whole time, loving the breeze on his face. We did this during Brian's lunch break, so didn't have tons of time. We hurried and looked through the gift tent, but ended up putting the few items we'd picked up back since we didn't want to stand in the long long lines. There wasn't much we'd wanted - a cool looking domino game for Joshua, a snack container for Nathaniel and a replacement thermos for Joshua's Thomas lunch box that we got him at a thrift store several years ago (the thermos was cracked). I'd picked up some stickers, but put them back...didn't really need those, I'd found a Thomas scrapbook kit on clearance at Walmart a few weeks ago and it has all the paper and stickers I'll need to do a couple of pages for each of the boys' albums. Joshua wanted to ride on some little train/car things that kids made move by turning a handle (in place of a steering wheel). Only five kids could do it at a time and there were about 15 kids ahead of us. So we talked him out of that and waited in the much shorter line for the clown who was creating things from balloons. He was thrilled with his twisted balloon sword (yellow, of course). We skipped right on by the bounce houses and head back to the car so we could grab some lunch and get Daddy back to work on time. Both kids slept on the way home (yay!). 
Nathaniel giggled and grinned the whole time, loving the breeze on his face. We did this during Brian's lunch break, so didn't have tons of time. We hurried and looked through the gift tent, but ended up putting the few items we'd picked up back since we didn't want to stand in the long long lines. There wasn't much we'd wanted - a cool looking domino game for Joshua, a snack container for Nathaniel and a replacement thermos for Joshua's Thomas lunch box that we got him at a thrift store several years ago (the thermos was cracked). I'd picked up some stickers, but put them back...didn't really need those, I'd found a Thomas scrapbook kit on clearance at Walmart a few weeks ago and it has all the paper and stickers I'll need to do a couple of pages for each of the boys' albums. Joshua wanted to ride on some little train/car things that kids made move by turning a handle (in place of a steering wheel). Only five kids could do it at a time and there were about 15 kids ahead of us. So we talked him out of that and waited in the much shorter line for the clown who was creating things from balloons. He was thrilled with his twisted balloon sword (yellow, of course). We skipped right on by the bounce houses and head back to the car so we could grab some lunch and get Daddy back to work on time. Both kids slept on the way home (yay!). 
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