Day 4: Granny, Nana, Baking, and Trains

Here is my sleepy Holly!  She didn't go to bed until almost midnight,

But then again, that is only 9:00PM in California

Here is Holly playing a new Puzzle game with Opa

Later she was happily playing in her castle

of course she had a new pet "Dragon" who joined her

He made a cuddly guard to the castle door

It was so sweet watching her play, Joel wants to get a dog, but I'm not ready

Here we are in Opa's fancy car heading over to the train house

Granny and Nana stayed in night there so we could spend the day together

but we started the day off checking out Opa's cool trains

Holly really liked them, which was a good thing

But that also meant she wanted to touch everything and that was a bad thing

There are so many really neat details in there set-up

It is a work in progress, they are building new areas all the time

One room has an area like Colorado, in another area it is New York

Holly loved the details, like this neat swingset

Here is Holly crawling under the table, it is full of wires, it is a very complicated set-up

That there is the Emeryville Amtrak station, it was a custom made replica

Inside the mess of tracks in a rabbit hole and out popped a Holly

It gives them access to the middle areas of the tracks

Holly wanted to push the trains along the track and didn't get that they run electronically

Holly decided to look around and find other toys that it was ok for her to play with

Here is a map that my Mom designed on the computer of the train layout

Around the house are lots of other cool boy toys like this cement truck

Holly decided to race it against a trolley car

After the train house we headed back and Holly and Granny made pancakes

Holly did all of the pouring and mixing on her own

This is a cool whisk that you spin by rubbing your two hands back and forth

Holly loves helping out in the kitchen

Granny poured the eggs in since they are raw

and then Holly stirred and stirred

It was nice to spend the day relaxing and hanging out with the grandparents

Later Granny and Holly played with Holly's toy fairies

Granny needed help remembering everyone's names

Holly didn't mind telling her all the fairies, Vidia was one of her favorites

Later they decided to play dress up.  Holly wanted to be snow white

It's her favorite princess.  Though we had not yet met her.

Next Holly showed Granny and Nana Opa's hockey game and taught them how to play

Later a game of Homer Operation.  Holly liked to purposefully make it buzz, she had lot of fun and it was a great day.