Lincoln's First Time with the Train Set

The nice thing about being a third son is that your brothers already own all the cool toys so you don't have to wait around for your parents or grandparents to buy them for you. Kara said the other night Lincoln was watching the boys play with Legos and he tried to grab one. Legos are too small for babies, so she handed him a Duplo dinosaur. Instead of being excited, he gave it a truly disgusted look. He didn't want any part of baby toys--bring on the big boy toys!

One of our older boy toys is the train set. (Older boy toys? Bentley was only twenty-two months old when we purchased the train set. That might be old compared to three months, but twenty-two months is still young, isn't it?) Moving on...

This past Monday afternoon Bentley set up the track. I helped a little bit, but he doesn't need my help unless he's in a hurry. B always insists that the track be a thirty-five foot loop at the minimum. When Jake and I set up the track, he lets me build smaller layouts. I appreciate that, especially when it comes time to take it down.

Lincoln laid on our bed propped up on opa's legs and watched the boys set up the track. After Bentley and Jake finished the layout, they brought out the trains, including the battery operated engines. I placed Lincoln down in one of the loops of the track where he watched the trains for a while. He's definitely a male. He loves watching things in motion.