This Train is Heading to February

Our new 2010 calendar has pictures of CP Rail trains for each month. The January image is a fairly non-descript passenger car, so Scott is fairly anxious about getting on to the next page, where he has seen a picture of a gleaming red diesel locomotive -- much like the one that we rode last year on that fortunate morning. We have had to explain to him that each box represents a day, and that there are a lot of boxes between today and the last line of the page, when we can finally turn the page to February and the red train. I think he still struggles with the notion of months and years. For example, his way of saying "in the future" is "next week".

 

I think we are also anxious about turning the page to February, but not because of the shiny red engine. We can already see it down there, on the bottom row of the calendar, where the boxes turn gray. The second gray box says, "Baby Due Date". We can count the boxes without having to turn the page.

 

Next stop, Family of Four.