Wednesday, June 3, 2009

All Aboard!


Luka has become quite the train aficionado lately. He discovered a friend's Thomas trains and little tracks and he hasn't looked back since. I got him a little set of used Thomas trains.

He likes watching that insanely boring show on TV, but I have to admit it is completely and utterly adorable to see him hooking up train cars, huddled over his tracks and moving his trains around making little chugging sounds.

My neighbor and I each have three kids, and while our eldest children were off getting their higher education, we loaded the little kids into one van and went off to the stadium where there is a San Diego Trolley station and climbed aboard. It was the perfect thing to do with four small boys.

The kids loved the trip, pointing out all the school buses, shopping malls and mountains they could see passing by out the windows. They loved not having to sit in car seats! We took two separate rail lines over to a small steam train museum where kids can explore a caboose and a climb into the engineer's platform on a steam engine.

Then we headed across the street to our favorite coffeehouse for moms with kids, Java Mama, to let them blow off some steam of their own while Audra and I filled up on caffeine.

Two more trains got us back to our van and then we headed home in time for lunch! That was enough to do me in for the day, even with the extra caffeine.

I had loads of good camera fodder. You can see more photos over on my flickr page!

8 comments:

Snowbird said...

That sounds like so much fun. Looks like Luka may be an engineer too--just not the kind you might have thought of.

tonya said...

I have to say I did a double-take on that photo. The little boy on the far right looks like my boy to an astounding degree!

I keep waiting for him to get into trains; for some reason I like playing trains so much better than playing with cars. (Maybe it's the planning the tracks and decorating the imagined hillsides?)

Shama-Lama Mama said...

Tonya, he sure does! I hadn't even thought of that. Luka is my only boy into cars OR trains. It's so cute to see him choo-chooing while moving them around.

Natalie said...

I checked out your Flickr page, and you have some seriously great photos there of your train excursion! Such a talented photog. :)

Snowbird said...

OK, we need some more blog posts!! I miss the adventures and misadventures of the kids. I know FB is great but I'm in withdrawal here. So are a few others.!!

Tootie said...

My, those boys are sure growing fast. :-) Looks like they had a great time!

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