For the last few days, Charles has been nattering on about taking a long trip. At first it was just a long trip by train but later it became specifically a trip to Chicago. Charles obtained a long strip of desk calculator paper and used it to make a train ticket with a long list of stops. The strip was about 3 feet long and Charles wrote on it in his simple but beautiful script all the way on both sides. The ticket had to be long because the trip was long.
At first Charles just asked about going on a trip, but later he simply announced that we were leaving “tomorrow”. He also told me I had to drive, it was my “burden” because Mom had driven the last time. He has been a little bit disappointed by the fact that we don’t seem to actually go on the trip, but his enthusiasm has been renewed each morning.
Yesterday he set up a train ticket stand and made me buy some train tickets ($8 for me, $1 for Alice). He taped one of Mom’s planting strips to the front of his stand to indicate the direction of traffic flow (“please walk this way!”).
Some of this seems to be in reaction to Corwin’s birthday, as Charles announced yesterday that “today is my birthday”. He was very disappointed that he didn’t get any presents and that Corwin got the first piece of cake. He seems to be getting over it, as he was busy making letters for his class again this morning.