Peyton the Contortionist

Every day, after school, I take Peyton to either the Menlo Park or Redwood City train station to watch the midday trains. He loves seeing the trains. He says "Hello train. How are you doing?" most of the time - not as often as when we first started doing this.

Peyton likes to play on the crossing tracks after the trains leave the station. The trains only come hourly between 10am and 3pm.

A northbound train (right) and southbound train (left). This doesn't happen to often, but when it does...

...Peyton gets annoyed when I ask him to turnaround to take a picture with both trains! Bad mommy - ha!

Last week, we got quite a surprise. The northbound train pulled up hauling two engines! Peyton was confused but liked it!

He likes to play on the crossing tracks after the trains leave and likes to inspect the crossing arms.

Happy at the train station yesterday!

We usually get to the stations a few minutes before the northbound train arrives and then wait another 10-15 minutes for the southbound train. During this time, Peyton stomps on leaves, looks at the train schedule board, watches what people are doing, and if all that fails, he does this (at the Menlo Park station):



My little contortionist. I'm not sure how much longer he'll be able to do this as he's growing, growing, growing!