March 18th, 2012

Here are a few more pictures from our Sunday photography shoot. Mom loves the way these pictures look, and I have to agree with her!

On Flickr, she mentions that she thinks I ought to take a bath—I don’t really agree with that though!

Princess helped with the photography shoot. Mom says she was quality control.

The American Girls came outside with us. Mom’s in the middle of making pajamas for them, so they’ve been getting trips downstairs with my plushie friends and I.

Molly is the next subject of her seamstress skills. She says that my plushie friends and I have plenty of clothes, but the AG girls don’t. Sigh. I like new clothes though!

And because it makes Mom happy, a picture of the sky!

March 13th, 2012

Spring has come—at least for a little while—to Wisconsin! I thought I would share with you the pictures that she took a few days ago. It was 60 degrees Fahrenheit on Sunday, so after she got out of work she took some of us outside for a photography shoot!

 

Caleb has come to terms with the fact that he has to share traveling companion duties with Wren for a while. He told me that it was nice to have someone to talk to while Mom was working!

Foster is happy to get outside. He travels with me to work in Mom’s car sometimes, but we don’t get to go out of the car. It’s sort of tempting to get out, but we don’t want to get lost!

Milton was glad to get out too—he likes looking at the birds! There are a lot of bird feeders in our front yard, so there are plenty of birds to see!

Mom has the next couple days off of work, so I’m hoping that she takes us for a car ride! I know she wants to get her car washed, so I think I’m a shoe-in for that ride! I hope you all are having a great day!

March 5th, 2012

So, what do you all think of all the interesting places Mom and Caleb have gone? I wish I could have gone with to the train museum, but it will be there in the future! The next place Mom is going to go that is interesting is Milwaukee again for a book signing, but that’s not until April!

Instead, I thought I would show you some pretty pictures of Wisconsin. We have been having a crazy winter this year. One week it’s snowing, and the next week it’s 45 degrees Fahrenheit (7 degrees Celsius). 

My mom loves taking pictures. It’s probably one of the reasons we set up the blog!

She has a camera with her almost all the time. She also takes a lot of pictures of our bulldog, Princess.

Mom says that we have a few book reviews upcoming, so you can all expect that soon. It’s also getting closer and closer to spring—and that means Mom is much more willing to take my friends and I outside!

To Jerry and Ben—my Mom thinks that meeting would be the coolest thing! She says that someday she wants to go to the Netherlands to meet Sullivan and Hammie, but that won’t happen for a long, long time! If you want to send contact us via the profile page thing, we would both love to try to set things up!

Hope you all are having a good day!

March 1st, 2012

A few weeks ago, Mom and Caleb went to the National Railroad Museum in Green Bay. I love trains and I wish I could have gone! But these pictures almost make up for it!

Outside the museum itself, there is a huge shed that they keep more trains in. It was rather dark and everything was covered in layers of dust! Some of the trains are in need of restoration, but it is better then sitting outside all year long.

There really wasn’t a lot of labels, so Mom is not sure which train is which. Oddly enough, there is more information on Wikipedia about which train is which then on the museum’s website!

This is the full sized Aerotrain from the other post. It looks kind of like a car to me! Maybe like a rocket ship! There were several cars behind it.

This was a train without a label. Mom thinks it is from the Lake Superior and Ishpeming Railroad. It is a steam train.

This is a boxcar that Mom liked because it was from Wisconsin. Wikipedia says that it is a replica though.

Wikipedia says that this is a tank car that used to hold vinegar. That would be a lot of vinegar!

And because every train blog post should end with a caboose, here is a picture of an Illinois Central wide version caboose, pulled by a Manistique and Lake Superior Railroad Alco S-3 engine.

I hope some of you enjoyed my train pictures as much as I did! I love trains! They’re so big!

February 20th, 2012

A few weeks ago, Mom and Caleb went to the National Railroad Museum in Green Bay, Wisconsin to look at trains. I wish I could have gone with, but these pictures almost make up for it!

This time we are going to show pictures of the trains that are in a huge building. These are the trains that they’ve cleaned the outsides. There actually were a few of them that you could go inside and look too!

This is the Dwight D. Eisenhower, a steam locomotive that General Eisenhower used to travel around Great Britain and Europe during World War II.

Caleb really liked the logo!

This is the Union Pacific Big Boy. It is the longest steam train ever made. It is 134 feet (41 meters) long and weighs 1.25 million pounds (0.6 million kilograms).

Mom says that it was HUGE.

This is a Pennsylvania Railroad CG1. It is an electric train!

That is how it connected to the power lines above the rail lines.

Next time, we’ll show you pictures of the trains that were left outside in a covered shed.

February 16th, 2012

The AG girls aren’t very happy about the whole thing, but Mom has given Wren her own blog. Mom says that Wren wants to write to Miranda, a pixie that lives in Colorado, and she doesn’t want those messages to clog up my blog. It is going to be both here, on blogspot, and on WordPress as an experiment.

Don’t worry—they’re really not mad at Wren or Mom—they mostly now know that the idea of having a separate blog isn’t totally out of this world as it was before! Mom hopes that she can keep up on two blogs—although the Wren one probably won’t get updated as often as this one, since I’ve got a lot more adventures to talk about!

February 15th, 2012

A few weeks ago, Mom and Caleb went on another trip. This time they went to the National Railroad Museum in Green Bay. I love trains! I wish I could have gone, but these pictures almost make up for it!

My mom went here when she was a little girl. The outside looks pretty much the same, but the inside has changed a lot! There were three different parts of the museum. We’re going to show the pictures from the first part today.

This is a diorama detailing the making of the railroad. Mom liked the horses in the background.

They had a few models of trains. There are different scales of train models, so they’re different sizes.

This was about as old as they got. Mom thought that they should have more about the history of railroading, rather then the railroad after the 1900s.

This one was pretty cool. They had the full sized engine and a few cars outside! It was called the Aerotrain.

These are called drumheads. On the back of a train’s caboose, they had a neon size that proclaimed the name of the train. A man named Frederick Bauer collected them and donated it to the museum.

This was Mom’s favorite!
Next time, I’ll tell you about the big trains that are inside the building. They are all cleaned up and shiny!