Chip Gaines; The Gaines family.Photo:Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty, Joanna Gaines/Instagram
Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty, Joanna Gaines/Instagram
Joanna Gainesis sharing one of her favorite family traditions as her youngest gets to experience it.
Sharing an Instagram Reel on Thursday, the mom of five, 45, posted scenes from sonCrew’s father-son train trip with husbandChip Gaines.
“When each one of our boys turned five, Chip would take them on a train ride to San Antonio, TX,” she explained.
Photos show the rest of the family —Emmie, 13,Duke, 15,Ella, 17, andDrake, 18 — seeing the pair off at their local train station as they embarked on the fun outing, which began and ended with an hours-long train ride for the two.
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The clip began with a view of Crew walking on top of three stools. After he set foot on top of a brown chair, he used the living room table to get to the sofa. A pillow bridge connected him to the other side of the table, which he walked on top of to arrive at the end of the course.
Drake, Ella, Duke and Emmie Gaines helping parents with demo in 2019.Chip Gaines/Instagram
During a conversation with PEOPLE in November, the mom of five opened up about the importance of protecting her children’s passions.
“Obviously at some point it’d be so fun to have one or two of our kids work with us, but that’s definitely not what we’re saying out loud to them. Chip is really good at saying, ‘You need your own identity. When you’re finished with college, go do some stuff on your own. Learn some stuff. And then if you want to come back years later and teach us, we’re here,’ " she explained.
She told PEOPLE that having kids of different age ranges gives her and her husband, 49, “perspective.”
“The greatest gift of having a kid go off to college and having a 5-year-old is that perspective. It’s not here forever. We don’t want to waste these moments,” she said.
source: people.com
