Railroad Park

For President’s day, my friend Claudia invited Christian, Vivian and I to join her at the Railroad Park in Scottsdale.  I had never even heard of it before but it was really a fun place for the kids.  Being president’s day, it was a little crowded but I really do want to go back there sometime soon for sure.  Vivian was very excited to get to ride on the little train they had there.  Here we are sitting on it (Christian wanted to ride in the cattle-car which made me feel Closter phobic just looking at it so he’s not in these.

Claudia and Greyson.  Vivian really likes this little boy…it’s so sweet.

Inside the model building they had a little caboose the kids could play in…they were excited about it and we went back here a few times.

This photo of Christian is a little overexposed because there was so much light coming in the huge windows they have there.  It’s very cool here because they have a gigantic room with model trains all over it.  Vivian was content to watch the trains for quiet a while though her brother was not as intrigued as she was.

Claudia took this photo of us…as usual, I’m the one who looks distracted.

The kids really wanted to just climb on things.

They had a little museum and a train car that you could walk on and look at. FDR, Eisenhower, and some other past presidents used for campaigns and such.   The very narrow hall was a little uncomfortable for this spoiled child. Can you imagine trying to pass people down that hall?

We went on the carousel (but since I was holding Vivian, I didn’t get any photos) she LOVED those horses and was pretty annoyed that I wouldn’t let her go back on it.

They have a couple of playgrounds there so before we left, I let the kids play for a bit.  With all the kids off of school, it got a little overwhelming to keep track of two.  How do parent’s do it with more than one child to watch?

Vivian has become a very good climber

Christian is amazing on the monkey bars… I’ve even considered putting him in gymnastics.

Vivian wanted to try out every slide.  She calls them “wee’s” right not which cracks me up.

I got a little frustrated though because at the end of every slide, she wanted to sit right down and try out playing in the sand right at the bottom of the slide.  So I would pick her up and move her to a different spot of sand, she’d scream and climb up to get on another slide and then try out the sand at the bottom of that one…and it’d start all over again.

Thankfully, Vivian realized that her brother could slide with her at the same time on the double slide and so she insisted it was his job to slide down with her.  After a few minutes of this I was ready to go home.

Here’s a photo of Vivian the minute we got in the car.  She is very against wearing shoes so the minute we get in the car or somewhere where I can’t see her very well, off come the shoes.  Oh well.  She does have cute little toes.

Thanks Claudia for such a fun morning. We loved it!