Day Out with Thomas!

B & O Railroad Museum hosted a really cool event his weekend called a Day Out With Thomas. Since Thomas' #1 fan happens to live in our house, we decided to check it out today. We purchsed a ticket back around Alex's birthday, and this ticket bought us the entrance to the festivities and one train ride on a real Thomas the tank engine! Alex was beyind excited. As we got out of the car he saw the train going past and started shaking from excitement screaming, "Mommy, choo choo, choo, choo!!" He proceeded to say "Choo,choo" the entire way walking up to the entrance gate. He was probably one of the only kids in there actually more ineterested in the musuem exhibits instead of the little play stations and photo ops along the way. He studied the wheels, the metal, the engines and was so ineterested! Everyone who has a 2 year old knows how often their focus jums around, and I was amazed at the complete focus Alex had for the engines and rail cars themselves. Of course he still played a little at the block building station and train garden, but he was amazed by the old models of trains. He kept running his little hands along the steel wheels going, "wow, Mommy!" It was the cutest thing. Of course he also loved the train ride! He stared out of the window the whole time, and even pointed out the lovely trash piles and police cars we saw along our lovely scenic tour of downtown Baltimore. He saw a huge heap of trash and said. "Eww. Trash!" LOL. Amaya had a nice time to just hanging out in her stroller and enjoying the ride. I have some pictures of a very excited boy, who was too excited to smile for any of them. Enjoy!
Abe and Alex in front of a real Thomas!

Little Miss Amaya all bundled up and hanging out in her stroller At the coloring stationTouching a train wheel in the museum--he's way more excited than he looks in this pic!

Staring at the old trains

When we came home, it was too rainy outside to ride his bike, so we let him ride in the kitchen!

Easter Fun

We hope everyone had a wonderful Easter! It's been a pretty busy week for us, with me returning to work from Spring Break, and Abe having to work his annual Saturday shift, so we are a little behind in getting the Easter picstures up. We had a great Easter though--Alex's 3rd and Amaya's 1st! We started the day by opening the kids' baskets, then attending Easter Sunday service at our church, Our Lady of Mount Carmel in Essex. It was a very nice service, though extremely crowded and we had to sit in the basement for the overflow service! After church, we headed down to Dundalk to eat breakfast with Abe's Mom and my Grandma. We helped out with hiding the Easter eggs for the kids, then waited patiently for Abe's sisters and their families to arrive--this part was not easy for Alex, as he kept eyeing the baskets wondering when he could dig in! Once they got there, we ate again, opened baskets, and hunted eggs. Alex decided he was too cool to hunt eggs with everyone else, and played ball by himself to the side. LOL. Then we just hung out until tie to go home. It was beautiful weather, and overall a really great Easter! Now we are looking forward to spring weather, playing outside, and Amaya's baptism in less than a month. It's hard to believe our little princess is now 5 months old. She had her first bite of real food today--carrots. She loved them and ate almost the whole jar! We feel so blessed to be able to spend another great Easter with our two kids and our family. Check out our pics below to see what went on during our fun Easter day!

Amaya in her pre-Easter dress, getting ready to go to Weber's Farm!

Alex playing in the tire maze at Weber's

Amaya in her cute eyelet Easter dress!

Abe and Amaya outside of Mount Carmel

What Alex was doing during the Easter egg hunt...