World's Greatest Hobby Show

One of our goals for 2013 is to do a Family Outing once per month. For our purposes, we're defining "Family Outing" as somewhere we go, all four of us, that's primarily designed for the boys (mostly just Austin at this point) to have fun. This is to be a non-holiday event, but could range from something like the Irish Festival to the Dallas Arboretum.

Austin's been on a huge Thomas the Train kick lately (I'm honestly not sure where he got that from.) and so when we saw the World's Greatest Hobby Show (with a Thomas YOU CAN RIDE!) advertised on tv, we immediately started making plans to attend. It was over in Ft. Worth, so we knew we'd have to set aside a good chunk of time, but luckily (even though we'd heard about it only this week), we were able to work it out. We were only able to stay for about an hour and that was about plenty for us, Austin running all over the place and Seth chasing him while I pushed Graham in the stroller and attempted to get pictures. We got there right when it opened and I was very thankful because it was PACKED when we were leaving.

Kids were free, but parents were not.

This train was self-propelled and any time it hit something, it changed directions. Austin was a bit perplexed/freaked out by it. We couldn't stop laughing. Aren't we nice parents?!?

There was a whole section of trains and tracks to play with. It's really only about the Thomases, though. (And yes, he wore his Thomas shirt. Cheesy, right? ;-)

I love that pointer finger.

Some of the train sets up had HUGE trains put together. Like an engine and 80+ cars!

He's fuzzy because he's bopping up and down going "Choo Choo! Choo Choo!" This was his third time riding and he got to be at the very front!

He had a SUPER time.

He even let out smoke!

It was a little like the scene in Elf... He put his one foot up ahead of him.

Here's a video of him riding Thomas.