All Aboard!

After our Thanksgiving tour of Northwestern N.C., you'd have thought we would be well over transportation. Not so. Saturday we decided to take Eli and Ezra to the Virginia Transportation Museum. We've been meaning to do it for awhile because trains are very popular in our house and the museum has a lot of them.

So....

 And we'll leave you with one final railroad thought (I don't think it will escape you, but be sure to notice the excitement level here). . .

A Good Visit

We had a good visit with Ellie, Jed and Macon and their respective parents last weekend. The weather was perfect, the park was ideal, and the food tasty and plentiful. Eli and Ezra both had a blast and so did we.

Mulch-flavored Ice Cream Anyone?

 Rock throwing...well it rocks.

 So does fishing (Eli carries his pole in the car - you never know when you'll have a fishing emergency).

 Enjoying a little time-out. Eli's part of this was a punishment and Ezra felt compelled to help him through it. Notice the wet pant legs? Notice nobody's children but ours walked straight into the river? I'm going to just chalk it up to the fact that ours are used to getting in the water because we go to the river so often and hope that it doesn't have any relationship to their common sense. I mean, nobody told them it was November.

The Firefighter and the Bumblebee

That sounds like a good children's book! Happy (belated) Halloween.