The Computer Guy and I recently took the three youngest children to the Oklahoma City Train Museum. We tried to bring the older children too, but I don’t have the kind of money it would have taken to bribe them into being pleasant while climbing through old train cars on in extreme summer heat. #5 is three and loves trains more than anything. It was more my husband’s outing with the children. I just came along for the ride.
The Computer Guy, #4, and #5
He taught them useful things like “This is the brake. It makes the train stop.”
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and all about that little doo-hicky thing that connects the wheels. (See how well I listen?) |
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He put pennies on the tracks which the trains ran over and flattened. |
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I said stupid things like “Hey. There’s a wagon.” and then took a picture of it with the color setting all wrong. |
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Oh, and I carried the baby around in his sling. |
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Then the baby got hot and I said it was time to go. |
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Which made everybody happy. |
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At last I could help. Bribery with a giant lemonade. |
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and there was peace in the car. |
Oh, there was one other person at the train museum. The Computer Guy brought her along. Have I mentioned that I hate her? I have? Good.