jane on a train

right now, my girl is really into thomas the tank engine.
i mean really into thomas.
whenever we’re at barnes and noble,
she plays at the train table.
she has thomas books that she has memorized.
she can sit there and recite them
and make it look like she’s reading them.
she gets thomas dvds from the library.
(they’re boring at first, but eventually hypnotic.)
she has thomas stickers,
and a few weeks ago,
our youth admin, judie got her a real track with trains-
whoa!

i was online awhile back,
and i saw that you can actually ride thomas in some places.
and i saw that he was coming to the bay area,
this summer!
so of course we got tickets.

we’ve been talking about it all week-
“five more days to thomas!”
“four more days to thomas!”
“we can give sir topham hatt a high five!”
(sir topham hatt is in charge of the trains in thomas-world.)

and today was the day we went.
she woke up early saying “thomas!”
this morning we drove to felton to the roaring camp railroad
in the santa cruz mountains.
(which is really cool!)
the whole place was done up for thomas-
and thomas merchandise and children were everywhere.

janie was amped.
here we are looking at thomas.




the thomas toy store:




here we are on the train!




this is sign language for train:




during the ride,
she didn’t talk at all-
she was focused on listening to the little story over the speakers
and listening to the songs it played.

and this is a picture of jane with a very scary looking sir topham hatt:




she slept hard on the way home!
i think we cured her of her train obsession for awhile.