Mommy, the train is coming

This morning, Collin and I went to the local train park. My friend from high school, Bridgette, and her husband, Craig, invited us to join them. Her husband builds these trains for his hobby and wanted us to come out so he could give us a ride. As soon as we got there, Collin was pointing at all of the trains. When one went by with smoke coming out of the smoke stack, he said it was hot and on fire. Too cute...since he was associating smoke with fire.

After about an hour, Craig was ready to give some of us a ride. It was stinkin' hot today (99 degrees) so Collin was loaded down with sunscreen and Gatorade for the ride. This was one of those times that I was hoping he would NOT tell me he had to go potty since the ride was over 20 minutes long. I was also hoping that he did not want out after 5 minutes into the ride since we would not be able to get off once we got one. Luckily, neither happened during the ride...whew! Collin had a great time. We we passed each replica of a house or depot, Collin would say "there is another dog house". I have no idea why he thought these were dog houses but it was funny.

After the ride, we were all hungry. We brought food and had a picnic with Bridgette, her family, and Tony and Matthew (Collin's buddy). Collin must have been really hungry since he ate a lot despite being so hot. After he ate, he played with the other kids for about 30 minutes before we left.

Before heading home, we stopped by the outlet mall that was on the way. Since we were passing it up anyway, I thought we needed to stop....good reason, right? hahaha Since Collin was such a good shopper and really patient, we stopped at every place that had a kiddie ride for him. I did not have to pay for the ride because Collin freaks out when it starts moving. He just wanted to sit on them and "drive".

















He did take a nap on the way home. I stopped at our other house that is still for sale to get the mail and pull some weeds in case the house was shown the rest of the day or tomorrow. I was hoping Collin would want to finish his nap when we got home because I could have used one. Nope, he was awake. We had a snack, rested a little before we went swimming...mainly to wash off all of the dried, nasty sweat from the day. I can see this becoming a daily thing on the weekends if it's only going to get hotter this summer.