Thanksgiving

This year for Thanksgiving we celebrated on our own. James had the whole week off from school. He declared on Monday that we needed to go to the a different park each day. We made it to a park Monday. Rain ruined our park day for Tuesday. Then, when Tracy didn't have class on Wednesday, so we decided to do something else. He officially only had Thursday and Friday off.

Wednesday we went to the train museum. At the museum we saw them setting up model trains. James was excited to see them and was content to just watch the owners set their tracks up.

Thursday we had a low key day, with a low key dinner of pork, twice baked potatoes, peas and homemade french bread. We didn't want to spend a ton since we were saving up for our Christmas trip.

Friday, Tracy took James back to the museum since the model trains would only be on display that day and Saturday. They had a great father/son trip and James came home with another Thomas and Friends engine, Diesel 10.

Tracy said that this guy let kids pull and push the knobs to switch the tracks.
James would sit there patiently to be told which ones to move.
Other kids would come up and just grab the knobs as they pleased.
Apparently this guy really enjoyed having James as his helper
and let him stitch the knobs for quite awhile.

And just because they were taken shortly after Thanksgiving, pictures sleeping boys:

He isn't an easy one to get to sleep so sometimes
we just leave him where ever he finally crashed....

...even if that means in the middle of the living room.

James one day claimed my hat as his and then went to bed wearing it.