the life of baby jude

My Christmas this year was the best yet. I got to open so many presents that I still ask Mama & Gaga for them most mornings, hoping that maybe it's not over yet. Sadly, I think it is. I was on a bit of high between the gifts and the all the family visits, that now I have to find other exciting things to fill my day. Luckily, the New York Botanical Garden had a Holiday Train Show that was still going on last weekend. Mama's friend Brenda (Cooper's mom) told Mama about it. I gotta say, that's kind of sad- Cooper lives in London. Why can't Mama find about these things on her own? Anyway, last weekend was the final weekend and in honor of that, Thomas & Sir Topham Hatt were there. So Mama figured there was no greater way for us to spend an afternoon. Not wanting to battle a toddler in the Bronx alone, she invited Meema and the three of us went for an afternoon of "Choo Choo!" fun.

The Train Show was really quite spectacular. They made replicas of all great NY landmarks and surrounded them with the coolest trains. I just stood there in toddler awe, waiting for the trains to come around. It was just so very exciting and neat. After that, we went to a very long line out in the cold to sit in Thomas and take pictures with him. Let's just say the line was really slow moving and then suddenly Mama mentioned something about Thomas having to go to sleep. So we said "night, night" to him, peeked in the tent he was in and left. I can't believe I got to see Thomas in person. And look, I even got my picture with Sir Topham Hatt (AKA- Sir Toppy Hatt). I love meeting celebrities!


The day was capped off with a delicious grilled cheese and some vanilla ice cream at the Suburban Diner in Paramus. I'm wondering what I could've done to possibly make this day ANY cooler.