A Ride with Thomas

Jacob is now three and a half! To celebrate, we had a big surprise for him! Thomas the Tank Engine came to town and they had lots of fun things for the kids, so we went as a family.

We got to ride a bus in to the event, and here Jacob still had no idea what was going on. Once we pulled in and he saw all the trains though he got really excited!

Jacob first got to check out a lot of the old trains, and pull the bell.

He listened to storytime where they read Thomas books.

Finally we got to board Thomas for a train ride. (And all my pictures turned out blurry due to a fingerprint!)

After the 20 minute ride Jacob got a picture with Thomas. I think he was bummed because he wanted to actually touch his face, haha. He said he enjoyed the ride at least.

The boys liked watching the little trains on the tracks and Jacob's favorite part was playing with the toy Thomas trains.

We even got to meet Sir Toppam Hat! haha

Jacob also got to pet all the animals at the petting zoo and sit in a firetruck!

They really knew how to pack in a lot of fun stuff for kids at one event. Jacob had a fun time and didn't want to leave! At this age he gets excited about everything, so it's been fun!

 Blake is also now 15 months old. He seems to get new words in every day, like fishie,  milk, "a da" (all done) and signals by putting his hands up, and it even seems like he says "ba pa" for backpack when we get Jacob ready for preschool. He's still teething like crazy, I think all of his teeth have cut through at this point. And still no walking- a little behind here. We know he's strong enough, but he gets around so well he doesn't seem interested. He can crawl up and down the stairs with no problem at all and even gets himself up and off the couches by himself, and quickly. At least he's almost 20 pounds now, haha. He's growing, but it's nice to feel like I still have my cuddly baby.

That's it for now. Here's a fun picture of the boys trying out a motorcycle. As much as Luke would love to have a bike, don't worry, it's just his friend's. But they sure do look cute together!