V & T Railroad

For Father's Day, we headed to Virginia City to ride the train. Virginia City is a super cute little town with a ton of history--but don't ask me for any specifics because I was too worried about the train falling off the cliff or the kids throwing themselves onto the tracks to pick up many details from the tourguide. The kids--especially Elliot--enjoyed the train ride, complete with whistles, steam and lots of noise.

Thankfully, the train ride was new and different enough that Elliot was content to sit right on my lap for the entire 30 minute trip--no small feat!

It was the perfect little day trip for us.



In Other News....Laney kept telling Dave--Happy Birthday-and-Happy Daddy's Day--throughout the day.

At one point today, she said--Daddy, come play in my room. Daddy's my best friend.-- At least that's what we thought that she said; she later informed us that she was saying--Teddy, come play in my room. Teddy's my best friend (meaning her teddy bear!). But I'm sure that Daddy would have been her second choice! :)

Elliot's been a handful the last couple of days-definitely asserting himself. I suppose that as Delaney grows out of the terrible twos (which for the record she entered at about 12 months....and enters the horrendous threes!), Elliot will enter his very own terrible two stage. He shouts--NOOOOO--and--MMIINNEE about a hundred times a day. And he definitely has shown that he can throw a fit or two himself. He suddenly thinks that he's too big to hold his mommy's hand. But he's still my little boyfriend and when he saw me today after I had returned from a walk with the pups, he shouted--MMIINNEE MMOOOMMMYYYYY!

Delaney has taken to telling everyone--I'm two, but I'm almost free (three) and after my birfday, I get to sleep in a big girl bed.