Richmond Escape

The snow giveth days off from work. The snow taketh out-of-town weekend plans. The first weekend of the snow, we had to cancel our plans to go to Richmond to celebrate our mothers' February birthdays. The second weekend of the snow, we had to cancel our plans to go to a bed and breakfast in Middleburg. Grrr. Most roads were pretty passable by the second weekend, so instead of driving west, we decided to salvage the mothers' birthdays plans and drive to Richmond. It was really a lot of fun, and we were happy to have gone.

David checks out his train layout.

Tommy checks out David's train layout.

David shows Tommy the ropes for setting up a train set. Tommy calls David "D." Everyday after we went to visit, Tommy kept saying, "D! Choo-choo!" and doing the arm motion associated with tooting a train horn. He loves his cousin.

The fellas did a lot of chasing around the house and tackling each other. Tommy and David's squeals of delight were so fun to hear. It's nice when there's room to run indoors. We have a little bit of house envy. We admit it.

The most hilarious episode of the visit happened at Tommy's Lola's house. The truck in this picture was parked two feet from the road at one point, albeit on a steep hill. It ended up deep in the backyard, completely stuck. Don't ask how. Tommy was thoroughly engrossed in what was going on, and still enthusiastically replays the scene by making whirring tire noises accompanied by shoveling and pushing motions.