I Often Dream of Trains

Caleb finds a friend at Maia's birthday party.


Caleb and Sam inspect the new woodwork in Maia's room.


The ladies.


I. WANT. CAKE.


That's a pretty good grabber.


Every weekend is Trainfest weekend.


At Ayana's birthday party, Caleb prepares to fall back into the ball pit.


Caleb on the zip-line.


Sam on the zip-line.

That's right, we're raising superheroes.


Sam and Caleb, happy to see their buddy Krish at Ayana's birthday party.

Caleb at Trainfest

Sam at Trainfest.

The booth pictured above, furnished by the Wisconsin Garden Railroad Society (who also put on shows at the Domes each year), really captivated Caleb, who parked himself on the floor and did not care to move for the next hour and a half. Mostly, he was interested in the Thomas and James trains that you can almost sort of see in the crappy cell-phone photos above. Had we not dragged him away, Caleb may have been happy to sit there straight through until the 2010 Trainfest. Sam wins a spirit award for putting up with it all, as he's not much of a train enthusiast, though he was pleased to find a LEGO Batmobile and a die cast airplane.

Meanwhile, I've switched my particular gauge allegiance from the HO scale to the N scale.