My wife had a wedding dress trade show in Chicago with her best friend. Logan and I hung out solid for three days! I took off from work and we did lots of cool stuff: walks, multiple playground visits, Baby Gym, a happy meal with chicken tendies, coffee and croissants, tea party, a you-pick farm with her friend E and E’s dad. There was a petting zoo, a firetruck tour, and the biggest hit was the Pomona Train and Rail museum.

Logan loves trains. She has a Thomas the Tank Engine set (knock off) and will watch Thomas and CoCo Mellon Train videos until she goes cross-eyed. She was excited when I told her where we were going that morning, but when we got there she lit up like a bon fire! I couldn’t get to the trains fast enough.

She had the biggest smile and made a bee-line into the shop to look at stuff. When she saw the engineers hat, she immediately snatched one up and did a stompy dance of glee. I showed her the pink stripped one, but that just would not do! It had to be a “real” engineers cap. After the small gift shop, it was off to the trains!

The steam whistle scared her a little at first – no tears, just jumpy, but no force on this earth could have stopped her from blowing the whistle or ringing the bell once she saw someone else do it. There were three engines open and she made all the whistles blow at least three times. The 4-8-8-4 oil burner needed special attention and got 4 visits. She had to touch all the engines and cars and their wheels.

We were there for 2 solid hours and when we had made multiple rounds, wooed all the docents, and it was time to go, there was a little bit of a melt down… She REALLY wanted to stay. There were real tears!

We had to reset her wooden trains when we got home and played a mix of Thomas and Dino Ranch for the rest of the evening.