Sir Stephen Hatt waiting for the track to be cleared.
Train sandwiches for lunch.
The sheds for Gordon (Timothy), James (Justin), Thomas (Stephen) and Molly (Andrea)..jpg)
The amazing tracks in the backyard.
The engines filling up their tanks at the station (with the vacuum hose).Yesterday the boys were invited to Andrea and Justin's house for Thomas Day. Andrea and Justin's mom is a very creative woman! They were met at the door with their train's faces(cardboard with elastic to fit around their waists), and little Baby T. was wearing Sir Topham Hatt's black hat because, as she said, he's the one that would be controlling the day's activities anyway!
The backyard was covered with spray painted tracks for the engines to travel on. They even had a shed with their names on it! There was a filling station with an old vacuum hose hanging down for the engines to stop and fill up. The tracks strategically went up to the steps of the playset and forced the engines to come down the slide on the other side!
In the afternoon, the children made a cute train craft. They had had their pictures taken first thing in the morning, their pictures were printed off, and then they made train magnets with each of their faces in the windows.
It was a long, but fun day for them. Stephen was so tired by the time we left for home that he had announced that he didn't enjoy any of the day, but guess who talked about the whole day non-stop at the supper table, telling Daddy detail for detail what they had done?!
The boys were thrilled to have been invited to such a special day at their friends' house and I was thrilled to have a few hours of peace and quiet! The boys are wondering what Aunt L. is going to plan next, though, and they hope that they'll be invited again for another fun day! It's hard to measure up to Aunt L's creativity, but today we're going to try to have some olympics in our back yard. We are filling our days with fun because school starts next week!
5 comments:
WOW! What great ideas (10 years ago, Taylor would have LOVED this party!). Very, very cool. I love the faces around the waist!
This was so neat! Such a great idea. You have such creative friends and relatives (besides being creative yourself!) Looks like she put alot of work into it, but oh, they'll remember the fun for a long time.
You guys should all put your heads together and publish a book of fun activities like this.
Sounds fun! In San Pedro, Edson learned how to run behind-while pushing a bigger sized truck. Now he does this all the time. He would have loved to push trains...or even ride in them. He is also very excited about airplanes since they usually go over our house before landing at the airport
oh, you brought awe to this household with the photos from your blog!
What a creative idea! and to think a MOM had time to do all that! More amazing, that there were additional playmates involved.! I guess I'm just feeling my age today. Loved the pictures. My (sir Topham) hat's off to you ladies! Enjoy your olympics. (Who gets to be Michael Phelps or Shana Johnson?)
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