Myla's Special Day

A couple of weekends ago we decided to have a "special day" for Myla, since her time as an only child is running out. We took her to the Hesston Train Museum in LaPorte. Since she loves trains, we thought it would be perfect. Turns out, she loves them more in the abstract and was a little nervous about the real thing. It seemed to be the noise she didn't care for. Here are some shots from our first few minutes there:

We gave up on the moving trains for a while and spent some time on the caboose and other stationary cars. This warmed her up a bit.

Side note--as part of the special day, I painted Myla's toes for the first time. She loved it!

She eventually found the spot she really wanted to be--the train table in the gift shop!



We managed to get her on the 1/4 size train before we left.

Even though M.J. wasn't as enthusiastic about the trains as we thought she'd be, we still had a great time--I highly recommend this spot for any train enthusiast! And we still got what we wanted out of the trip, which was a lot of good time spent together. Maybe next year we'll take both kids, and a braver Myla will show Baby Brother the ropes!