mommy/tobey date at the train museum

One of our favorite places to go is the Southeastern Railway Museum!  It's amazing that we have that only 20 minutes from our house.  The last time we went, it was a few days before I gave birth to Jonah.  This time it was just Tobey and I who went.  I told him he could pick between Catch Air, swimming, or the train museum for our mommy/tobey date, and this is what he picked.  I've been trying to do a special day for just me and Tobey since Jonah was born once a month.  We always have so much fun together.  And it is not stressful at all for me because all my attention is focused on my one child.  Life is certainly better with Jonah, but doing things with just Tobey brings me back to a simpler time.  It was a little nostalgic.  I'm sure one day when we have more children (if God wills it), then I'll think its nostalgic to take Tobey and Jonah somewhere!  Ha!

Here are some of my favorite pictures from our day out yesterday.  We were pretty much the only two people there.  I wasn't going to get him anything from the gift shop, but when we went in there, he wanted a 99 cent eraser that was in the shape of a train.  Okay, I can handle that!  In addition to the museum's normal exhibits, there was a big model train set up in honor of national model train weekend so the guy turned it on just for us.  Tobey stared at it for 10 minutes.  We finished up our day with lunch at Panara.  I can't wait til next month's mommy/tobey date!

Workin' his favorite steam engine

Tobey said to me as he was walking down the hall of this sleeper car, "Nobody knows we are in here!"  My thoughts exactly!  It was really dark in there, but with the camera flash, you can't tell.

The chairs looked refurbished on this one.  If you look hard enough, you can see Tobey looking out a window.

Driving a bus.  There are also many old buses at the train museum.  He was totally into those this time.  I think he was too spooked to go on some of those dark, old train cars after that scary sleeper car...ha!

Instacollage of our day

Finally used the burnt setting on Instagram.  Perfect!