Lego Train

Sabian is obsessed with trains right now, so I decided to let Andy set up his train table early to display his Lego train for Halloween. He'll still do his regular winter scene with his O scale train for Christmas. He gets pretty excited about his Christmas Garden. He also plans to do a layout for his HO and N scale trains too. Yes, that means I will have no space left in my front room. At least it keeps Andy and the kids happy. The neighbors say they can see it too from the highway. Someday Andy hopes to consume the house with his trains and have a display like Mr. Sanda's house by the airport. If he can match Joel Sanda, then Andy will open his house to the public too. He's a long way from that. Here's a picture of his Lego train. It is surrounded by his Bionicle creations. He's trying to win more tracks off of ebay to finish it.
On a side note, we started full force potty training with Sabian on Friday and he is doing very well. He's successful about 90% of the time. Now we've just got to conquer the elusive no. 2. I'm open to suggestions.

Massive Train Layout - MTH Trains lionel atlas huge american

Sabian's new favorite video.

Adora rolls over

Spud Day

Spud Day is always fun. Andy and Steven Ran in the Spud Run, Andy did a 5k and Steven did a 10k. Steven came in 3rd over all, and won a first place medal for his age division. Andy rode his bike in the parade with Sabian riding behind him and Naomi rode her own bike beside him and did really well. We enjoyed the free baked pototoes, watched a magic show on the free stage, then met some star wars characters. Then we waited in line 4ever to get some frogs for Naomi. We then decided it was too hot, so we bought the movie Eragon and came home to watch it. Then we went to the demolition derby, but were too late to get seats, so we had to sit way up front and dodge the mud that was flung by the tires, making it a more interactive experience.

Adora's smile

Demolition Derby

We took Sabian to the demolition derby on Saturday and he loved it. I don't know if he's ever watched anything so intently. I took the kids to my parents house on Tuesday morning and my mom called to ask me if I'd taken Sabian to the demolition derby. "How did you know?" I asked as I thought of the mud flung on us I thought perhaps I missed a spot when I bathed him. She tells me she's noticed a dramatic change in his play behavior. He used to peacefully drive his toy trucks all around the room saying "vroom, vroom." Now he must always have at least 2 cars and continually crashes them into each other. Boys will be boys I suppose.

Sabian is 2

We went camping at Stoddard for Sabian's Birthday. He had lots of fun pushing his dump truck around the campground and hauling leaves or water. As soon as he figured out it was his birthday, he ran to the camping trailer and came out with the candles and an ice cream scoop. He knows what birthdays are about. He got a dutch oven dinner of barbecue chicken, potatoes, and blackberry cobbler. We all had a great time.

He loved playing with his new trains on his new playmat. He loves anything to do with trucks or trains.