All Aboard!

On Tuesday, we went on a great field trip with our preschool class. We took the train from our town to another town about 15 minutes away. While we were there, we went to a great bookstore for story time and then to a bakery next door from yummy cookies. It was a really fun morning. Emma loved the train and even though it was pouring down rain, she walked all the way to the bookstore and only mentioned a couple of times that she was "soaked".

Emma was excited to see her friends at the train station

No, she is not buying her ticket, she is checking the machine for extra "moneys" :)

Waiting for the train

Sitting with a friend

Checking out the scenery

Reading the paper: what else do you do on a commuter train?

Story time at the bookstore

Cookie time!

In other preschool news, we enrolled Emma in a 2 day a week program at a local church for next fall. We are excited about the programs they offer which include enrichment classes in the afternoon with topics like cooking, art, drama, and gymnastics. Emma is pretty independent and excited to do preschool on her own next year! She does a great job at making friends and is quite outgoing. Dan and I are not sure where she got her extrovert personality from, but we are happy she makes friends so easily and is so confident in new situations.

Emma also had her 3 year check-up this week. She is doing great and the doctor was happy that he hadn't seen since May; especially with her breathing/asthma issues. She is still on the small side; weighing in at a svelte 28 pounds (29th percentile) and standing at a height in 34 and half inches (3rd percentile). I think we can guess which side of our family she is taking after :) Let's hope baby boy gets more of the height genes in our family.

One more thing! Baby boy finally has a name! After a lot of thinking and discussing, we have chosen the name Ian Thomas for our new addition. We are trying to get Emma used to the name before he comes in a few weeks (6 weeks from today; Yeah!)

I guess that is all the news from here! We are participating in a consignment sale this weekend: selling around 200 of Emma's baby/toddler outfits to make room for boy clothes. Please pray that we do well and not much comes back to us!