Polar Express

Noah and I had a special mommy-son date to ride the Polar Express. Noah got new pjs to wear for the night, which he loved. The characters from the book/movie were around, and he got so excited when he saw the boy because he had a robe, too. It was cute. On the way there, I lost track of how many times Noah asked, "How many more minutes?" It was so fun to see him have such fun anticipation for it! It didn't disappoint. 

After we got our tickets, we spent some time at the "wish wall". After explaining what a wish was to Noah, he wanted to wish for a puppy for Lyla. What an incredibly sweet brother! (OR he knows the wish for him to get a puppy didn't come true last year so he thought he would try this approach!) 

Getting ready to go! (My favorite part was when the conductor came through to collect the tickets and punched an 'N' in his ticket with confetti falling over him just like in the movie.)

Noah loved his cookie and hot chocolate!

The train was very slow moving, and not much happened after the hot chocolate song, so Noah started to get a little bored. 

But about that time, we made it to the North Pole where Santa hopped on our train to give out the first gift of Christmas (which was Noah's favorite part...after we finally got the silly girl from across the aisle to get out of his way--Santa kept telling Noah to hug his sister for the picture but we didn't even know her! It took us a while to finally get Santa to understand they weren't together!)  (My only regret was not taking the good camera so our Santa pic is blurry. Oh well! Memories are better!) When I asked Noah on the way home if he would want to go again next year, he said, "No," which completely surprised me. But then he said, "Next year, Lyla can go, and then I will go, and then Lyla will go, and then I will go." Awww. (I don't think he understood that it would be possible for them both to go at the same time, but I thought it was so sweet that he would purposely stay home so she could have a turn. What a fantastic brother. Love him.)