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| Topic: Train Heaven |
| Date: 2009-09-27 10:58:31 |
| Message: Somewhere Chris had heard about a train shop in Valley Park called the Whittle Shortline Railroad. It is near the railroad tracks across from the caboose which is home to the geocache we just can't find (a story for another time). Anyway, last Saturday before bed, Chris told Emmett we would go to visit a "Thomas" store in the morning--the child was up with the sun staring in my face Sunday morning telling me, "Mommy, the sun's up, time to go to the train store." To help you understand the excitement of a trip to the train store I should back up a few weeks and explain how we came to be such Thomas enthusiasts. Grandma Kathy had bought a Thomas and Friends DVD that came with one of the little wooden trains for Emmett about a month ago, because she knew he fell in love with movies this summer. Well, he loved the train (who is really Mike--we'd never heard of him) that he called James because the movie was about James.  Emmett wanted more trains! We saw this as an opportunity to help us with the potty training issues we'd been encountering concerning Emmett's long time troubles. So, Chris told him if he'd start going on the potty everyday, we could get more trains like the ones Grandma Kathy had gotten him. Finally, Emmett went on LaborDay at Omi and Grumpy's after dinner when mommy and daddy were tired and not in the mood to drive all the way to Target, we were able to find a Thomas sounds book to reward him. Hey, you might call it a bribe, we call it the answer to a build up of toxins that need to be eliminated to make us all feel better. Grumpy found some sets of Thomas-like trains at Toys R US to use as rewards. Emmett seemed to have enjoyed the rewards because we no longer have problems with not going. Anyway, back to the Whittle Shortline, upon entering the store Emmett was in heaven. He walked right through the doors up to a train table set up with tons of track and every train piece imaginable for kids to just play with. An hour quickly passed, and while mommmy and daddy watched Emmett play we talked about how easily, and much cheaper, Chris could build a table that would be bigger and better than any of the train tables we have seen in stores. Daddy spent a couple of days looking at different plans to build tables, measuring various scrap pieces of plywood and 2X4s we had laying around here from all the fix-it up projects and then after a trip to "homer your depot" the boys had all the stuff they needed. They got to work right away, and Friday night Emmett didn't even want to go to let Holly and Ginger (he's dog sitting for the OJ and Miss Chris while they went to visit Lizard) because he and daddy needed to go home to finish his train table. While they were working on finishing up the table yesterday painting and adding the trim Emmett told Chris, "daddy we don't have to go to the train store anymore, I have my own table now." And he does, behold the nearly 48 square feet of train wonderment that is taking up an entire corner of the nearly finished basement!  |
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