Tt is for Train

Once upon a time two of your mommies were quite worried about riding the train at Lagoon. Once upon another time one of your other mommies serenaded us with every single primary tune she knew on a long and boring Heber Creeper train ride. But I think our most favorite train ride is Big Thunder Mountain Railroad at Disneyland . . . or is it the "train" your mommies and Uncle Tom made with our bar stools whenever I moved them into the livingroom so I could mop the kitchen floor.

Are you all aboard for some train adventures of your own?

Here are some great train titles:

Freight Train by Donald Crews

The Little Engine That Could by Watty Piper

My Big Train Book by Roger Priddy

The Polar Express by Christ Van Allsburg

Thomas the Tank Engine by Rev W. Awdry

Some of these books are also TV shows and/or movies. You could also try making your own train out of chairs, stools, or even boxes . . . Find four or five shoe boxes and cover each one with a different color of paper. Then hook the boxes (train cars) together with string or large paperclips to create a color train. Set out at a pile of small toys with at least three toys per color of train car. Place the colored toys in the corresponding train car. Or you could make it a number train by putting a number on the front of each box, then filling each train car with the correct number of objects or toys. And last, but not least, you can always come to my house to build a train out of legoes or puzzles pieces!

Tell me about what "train" you read, ride or build . . .

or how many train cars you counted

at the last railroad crossing you stopped at . . .

and I will be happy to give you more tickets!

Toodle-loo!

Love, Grandma