Boys just wanna have fun!

The past couple of days have been a dream come true for Walter! First Jeff worked on the train layout in the attic of our garage (our garage used to be a livery for horses and the attic was storage for hay). The train layout was passed down from Jeff's cousin, Michael and Walter was in his glory as Jeff putzed around with it. He was talking so fast he reminded me of an auctioneer and asking a million questions while of course jumping. If you click on this picture you can see that Walter is actually winking! He has discovered that Daddy has another whole array of trains and has been digging them! This morning he told me "Mama can I please touch it, I will be fragile with it?" It has been cute listening to him tell Rose E about them too. Then they got the Ranger back from the Polaris shop with a new windshield on it so they took it for a long ride last night too. Walter came back so excited to tell me about everything he saw and then he said "Mama I am a train boy and a ranger boy now."
I also had to laugh because he told me yesterday that he is afraid of dinosaurs (he has been into dinosaurs lately) and when I said why he said because they eat people. Then I told him that dinosaurs are extinct and that means that they don't live anymore. Then he said do you mean that they live somewhere else in the world? I said "no they are no longer living anywhere in the world" then he said "mama I want the world to give back the dinosaurs."
Rose E and I have had some girl time too. We have gone walking and shopping (I was excited to find a few more treasures today for our house, I found an old bib for our antique high chair and some old magazines; one we will have on our parlor table for the home tour and one is a musical one from the 1920's for our organ). She is pointing out and noticing so much now it is so much fun. Oh and her new words have been "Jesus" and "sheep" (we put an antique picture of Jesus with sheep in her bedroom and she talks about it everyday). It was also cute because yesterday she was carrying around two books and Walter said "look Rose E you have 1,2 books" she turned to him and said "1,2,3" and speaking of books, last night after I put her pajamas on she said "read?" She is getting to know the routine and understanding so much. Tonight I got out two snacks and I said one is for you and one is for Walter, then she went up to Walter and handed him his.
I took this picture of her this evening sitting next to some Roses in our yard, I am yet to get the two of them smiling at the same time in that spot (there are so many distractions outside) I guess I will have to try for round three tomorrow(I took one of them in the same spot last year and would like to get a picture there every year but we'll see I guess).
Well, I suppose I better sign off, I have to go get things ready for church tomorrow. Oh and that reminds me Jeff and I had instructions from Walter to wake him up at "2 and 14 in the morning." Gotta love it!