Choo-Choo!

For Eli's second birthday, Zue-Zue bought him a Melissa and Doug train set. We didn't even give it to Eli the day of his party because he received so much other stuff that day, so we decided to wait until after the party. This ended up being a wise decision because the weekend of his party Grandpa E ordered him a nice wooden table that would allow Eli to play with the train set at the perfect height.

When the table came in, we assembled it, and Zue-Zue brought the train set over for Eli to see. He was very excited! He kept wanting to "help" me design the track, so it took a little longer than I anticipated, but it finally turned out like the picture on the box. I quickly grabbed my camera to snap a picture because I knew that it would NEVER look like this again. Eli LOVED playing with it and I think it's going to be a great toy that will only get better as he grows older. Thanks, Zue-Zue and Grandpa E!

All Aboard!

Thursday was our last day with E. We started it by going to eat at the best hamburger place in town, Kincaid's. The locals didn't lie, those burgers were very good!

Since we were in the area, we decided to go to the Grapevine Mills mall and do a little bit of shopping. When we got there, the first thing we saw was a train waiting for kids to climb aboard to ride. We asked Eli if he wanted to ride on the train and he answered with an emphatic, "Uh huh!" (his most favorite word these days). He and I climbed aboard the train. Josh tried to get some good pictures of Eli smiling, but he was kind of in a daze during the entire train ride. He did have fun though. He waved to all the people in the mall we passed and was rewarded at the end of the ride with a Dum-Dum sucker. I love being able to do fun things like this with Eli. It's one of the things that makes being a Mommy so special!

All aboard the choo-choo train!

Obviously, whatever was on the ceiling was much more interesting

than looking at Daddy and the camera.