Austen Visits Thomas

This weekend the Illinois Railway Museum sponsored Thomas the Train. If you are the mother of one boy or several, you know what I mean by "Welcome to the Island of Sodor." Well, we went to the "Island" on Saturday to see Thomas.

Austen had a ball from seeing the big Thomas the Train that he got to ride on to waving at all the people from his seat on the train to getting a tattoo of Thomas on his arm. In fact, I didn't realize what a big impression Thomas the Train made on Austen until he went to school today and this is the email from the morning drop off that I got from his dad:

Austen was happy to go to school today. He walked down the hallway to his classroom and told everyone (Hana’s mom, Ms. Christina and the teachers next door to his classroom) that he saw Thomas the Train. He showed his tattoo and kept talking about the big Thomas he saw. I explained to them about the IL rail museum and the Thomas event that pulled the real train. Everyone was happy to see Austen so happy.