Music class ended for the semester before museum school this year. So this week we dropped Nadia off and Amelie asked her daily question, “Ride train? Choo choo?” I was expecting it so I said, “Do you want to go RIGHT NOW?” She said, “Yes! Ride train.” Then all the way up the road to the mini train she was saying, “Fun! Ride Choo Choo! Fun! Ride Choo Choo!” Then she would sort of laugh. Once we got to the depot she started asking for popcorn and “Train go faster? Now?” We got our tickets and I let her pick the seat.
“Go now? Faster now?”
Happy to have her popcorn now. Amelie must have said, “Fun!” about 50 times on the ride. We also looked for birds, squirrels and turtles. Every time the conductor made the train whistle she would laugh and smile.
After the train ride, we had a little more time so I swung by the Botanical Gardens to show Amelie this little frog statue. She said, “Hi frog!” I snapped a couple of photos and then she started to cry saying, “Frog, fall in.” It was weird and irrational, but also a little sad, so we left to go and pick up Nadia. Amelie promptly fell asleep on the way home.
