Thursday, August 12, 2010

Trains, Tractors, and Lawn Mowers...

We had the great honor of hosting MB, John, Tico, and Tucker over the weekend while Hugh worked.


We visited the Ag Museum and its train and tractors (and a few animals thrown in). There is an actual museum building with all kinds of tractors, airplanes, cotton bales, etc and an outdoor "old town" complete with barnyard, general store, etc...but in the museum there is currently a huge model train display and did John love it. Not to mention the hundreds of toy tractors sitting on a high shelf...he was just pissed that he couldn't play with the stuff.

(Note: The kid demands that he wear his hat and sunglasses any time he is outside.)
Then we headed to Bass Pro so he could see the fish and the deer and the bear and the turkey and ducks. We forgot about all the 4-wheelers and side-by-sides. Although John really enjoyed all the animals, he enjoyed the "tactors" the most.



Then as they were leaving he spotted our push mower...the entire time MB and I were loading the van, John stood beside the mower saying "lawn mow, lawn mow." He was so excited he couldn't stand it. Then trouble set in, when I loaded him in the van for them to leave, he started pitching a fit...and I mean a royal fit...he wanted to take the "lawn mow" with him. Once MB got to the gas station, she took John inside to walk around and it seems he forgot the "lawn mow" and was mostly peaceful the rest of the way.

2 comments:

Susan said...

Looks like Uncle Andrew is going to try to make a redneck out of that boy! :-)

Gray said...

Uncle Andrew seems to think it is sole duty in life to make the boy a redneck! His mom doesn't mind so much - she doesn't want him to be a complete city-boy.