After enjoying her first ride accompanied by me, Keira decided that she felt brave enough to ride in caboose with her brother. She had extra incentive, since parents are only allowed to ride in the cars. If kids want to ride in the engine or the caboose they have to be brave and ride without their parents. As Keira struggled with her buckle, her wonderful big brother immediately jumped in to help her. Both kids enjoyed many more solo rides in the caboose and engine.
After her independent experience on the train, Keira was disappointed that I had to join them on the carousel. But, I kept a bit of distance to continue her "big girl" experience.
After they ran out of their allotted carousel and train tokens, we headed to the van to begin our long trek home. All in all, our car rides were enjoyable and calm. The kids have gotten to be much better travelers as they've gotten older. Keira played with lots of toys, looked at books and requested music, while Elijah spent most of his time reading the directions to his Star Wars paper airplane book over and over again. We stopped for dinner at an older Chick-Fil A that had an expanded, outdoor play place that Keira loved. In fact, she loved it so much that she's requested going back several times since. At dinner, Elijah lost his third tooth eating a french fry. In the car after our fun experience, I got a picture of our happy car girlie, while Elijah took a few self-portraits of his new grin.
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