Choo Choo
I love that our little Charis loves trains! We live a few miles from some tracks and she can hear each and every train with her little radar ears that are tuned specifically for trains evidently. She will run to us and let us know that she hears a choo choo and then she will make the whistle noise and the noise of the wheels clacking on the tracks. If we happen to see a train she will sit there just mesmerized by it. I love that she loves trains because they have always been apart of the stories that my grandmother would share with me. Her father was a train engineer on the Clinchfield line. From an early age my grandmother would take me on train day trips. Trains seems to be from such a romantic era to me maybe that comes from the stories that my grandmother shared and the letters left behind that her Father and Mother wrote to each other. I am excited to share these stories and letters with Charis and Cai someday so that they might pass them on to their children as well.
I can’t wait for Friday when Charis and Callie can play choo-choo together! As you know, we love trains at our house too! It is so sweet to watch your children get so excited about something that we used to take for granted. It makes me excited to hear a train and even more to see one when I am with the kids because then I get to see the wonder and excitement on their faces and that is so special!
Comment by Christy — January 23, 2007 @ 8:56 am