Choo-Choos

In addition to tools, AJ is also an enthusiastic fan of choo-choos. We only have one car, so AJ gets to ride with his nanny in the morning and at night to drop off and pick up mama and dada at the train station, which usually involves at least one train sighting, to his delight. He has the lingo down--the crossing bar and flashing lights are "ding-dong!" and the train is a "choo-choo!" There are also lots of "oooh ooohs!" thrown in for good measure. Now that it gets dark so early, he is especially mesmerized by seeing the lights of the train at night when he picks us up in the evenings. He has a train book and has been flipping ahead in the pages lately to see the picture of the train at night, which he refers to as the "whooo, whooo" train because there is also an owl in the picture on the same page.

So AJ was delighted this weekend when his grandparents took him to the Botanic Gardens to see the special indoor holiday train exhibit. They spent a long time walking through and looking at each of the detailed train sets and cityscapes. Then when it came time to go, someone (and it wasn't Papa) through a huge fit and got to take a second walk-through to see it all again. Apparently the attendant said he had never seen an 18 month old who was such an enthusiastic fan of trains.