Monday, November 30, 2009

The Christmas Train


What's all the fuss?

Fuzzy, but if you look closely you can see Santa singing to the crowd from his box car stage.

One of the few pictures of the train that came out kind of clear.

Joe pointing out his two favorite things on earth: lights and a train. What a great idea putting the two things together !

As you can see from his face Joe was thrilled with the entire experience and has not stopped talking about the train.

So what's the deal ? The Canadian Pacific railroad sends a train out each year that goes from coast to coast making stops along the way and collecting food and donations for local food pantry's. We went out to Cobleskill last night to see the train with the boys. It was really fun to watch how excited Joe got over the whole thing. He wasn't sure what we were up to at first but once the train arrived it was game on. He sat on Ed's shoulders smiling, laughing, clapping and pointing. I do believe that this will be something the Lansing's will be doing annually. Well I've gotta go. Joe is helping and I have had to retype almost every word in this post because Joe is pushing buttons on the key board as I type.

Love you all Nikki

2 comments:

Unknown said...

Oh how fun!!I love that look of wonder on his face...next year Rory will be just as into it. We had a train experience in Portland also. Amy put her train around the tree...it runs on batteries. Paul's
reaction was "WHOA". Nuf said....Thanks for the great pictures. Love, Mom

Amy said...

I love it! Both boys are getting so big. And even more adorable. How is that possible? :-)
Love you all,
Amy and Crew

Farmer Joe

Farmer Joe