I know, I know- it's kind of ridiculous that I'm still writing about Beckett's birthday (it's been a while), but we got to enjoy one more fun activity before we called it a wrap on Beckett's 2nd birthday.
On his actual birthday we did what Beckett loves best- ate "Happy Cake"! Our friends came over after school and we all enjoyed some presents and some Thomas Happy Cake- it was so fun and he loved hearing them sing the birthday song to him.
This one is his first picture of the day. He woke up to a Thomas wonderland in our house and, of course, a special birthday chair!
Ok- so here's where we eat happy cake. Willie the Whale came home from school with Emery, so he got to enjoy all our birthday festivities too!
When Matt came home from work we opened the rest of our family presents and made some quesa-deeellas (another Beckett favorite)!
The next day Beckett, Emery, Gigi and I loaded up and headed to the Rosenburg Railroad Museum! We've never been before and I hoped it would be something that Beckett would like (trains= another Beckett passion), so it kind of felt like a gamble as we drove the 30 minutes it took to get there.
The first thing we did was watch a movie about trains (or so the tour guide said). It ended up being pretty dark and about train safety. Great. Things are not looking up for this excursion!
The museum is built right by a working railroad in Rosenburg and it's a busy one- a train came by at least every 10 minutes while we were there. They also have 3 different outside exhibits to see, which is where we headed next.
Our first stop was the caboose. I had no idea the conductor sits in the caboose and the engineer sits in the engine car (see, it's starting to get fun and educational!). We learned alot about the caboose and played climb up and down the ladder.
Then we moved on to the tower. This building used to be a working control tower, but (obviously) it no longer is. They have former control panels and switches in there (it was huge and amazing!), a typewriter, phone, and communication system the trains used to run on. It was really incredible to watch how all the parts work together to make the train run!
See how high up and close to the trains we were?
We moved on to a passenger car, and then the model train room! Apparently one man worked on this model train for 25 years and it showed! It was a huge room surrounded by several working model trains complete with intricate details of villages. It was hard to get a good picture of the all the details that went into this train. They have a platform in the middle of the room for the kids to stand and look out from.
I could have watched it all day, but my children were kind of over it. So, what did we do? Went to play with the toys.They also have 2 rooms of toys for the kids to have birthday parties in. They have pretty much every toy train you can imagine (surprising, right?), and a kitchen area with tables.
We stayed in here and had to play trains (because we NEVER play trains at home!) and the kids had the best time! It ended up being a really, really fun trip for us and I highly recommend it for anyone who loves trains (big and small!).
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