If you know anything about Joshua, you know that he absolutely loves trains. Making train tracks all started on Canon Beach in Oregon when we were visiting my brother and sister-in-law. Matt found a stick to draw train tracks in the sand and Joshua diligently followed them, always wanting "more". And so more he got. . . .on Canon Beach, in the sand pit at "Turtle Pool", and more recently in the snow! The nice thing about making train tracks in the snow is that you don't have to bend over. . . .you just shuffle your feet closely together so that train tracks magically appear. And he will follow me for an hour, "choo-chooing" his way along as James (because James is red). My jacket is green, and so of course that makes me Percy. Now when we were snowed in for Christmas in Nebraska, Mimi introduced snow ice-cream to Joshua. And so as he chugs along, he will make many stops to eat what he calls "snow ice-cream" that's without the sugar. It's on days like these when I think to myself, "I would never be making train tracks in the snow and eating snow ice-cream if it wasn't for this little 38 inch high boy." I'm hoping that he doesn't outgrow making train tracks--in the sand or the snow--for quite some time.
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