The Train Set

The train set doesn't get used very often. Probably because it's in our bedroom and the children don't play in our bedroom all that often. Sometimes when they ask to set up the trains we tell them there's not enough time before another activity starts.

However, once a month or so a train track is set up and the boys play with it for two or three days and then we take it down. Bentley builds elaborate track layouts all on his own. He built this one earlier in the month. (He asked opa for help connecting two sections.)


It wound around our bedroom floor making it difficult to get to the bathroom at night. Sometimes we remove larger pieces at night-time so as not to stumble into them in the dark. Of course this time of year, it's only dark for a couple of hours every night.

Jake prefers to play with the trains after someone else has built the tracks. Viva...you have to keep an eye on her. She lets the battery operated engine run off the track and into the wall where she leaves it spinning its wheels. Or she breaks the track pieces by waving around three foot sections. Or she falls off the sofa chair onto the cargo lifter. She's not usually destructive, but when it comes to the train set I have to keep my eye on her.