Sunday, July 1, 2012

Family Obsession

When Tate was little, he was obsessed with trains. Always talking about trains. Playing with trains. Always wanted to see real trains passing by.

Gideon picked up right where Tate left it. He has a handful of train books that he looks at at night. Tate even bought him (with his allowance - bless his heart) a Thomas the Train pillow pet that is a bedtime staple. 


AND, Gideon religiously plays with Tate's old train set (Geo Trax). 

We enabled this obsession further by purchasing a bunch more used sets. So, the collection is quite large. In fact, it's fun because Tate builds these gigantic track layouts with Gideon nodding approval. Here are a few Tate has ingeniously engineered.











2 comments:

The Triplett Family said...

Oh that is so funny. Makai is obsessed with trains as well! He always seems to have a train piece in his hand he carries around with him. In fact, we found a train table with about 48713057305 pieces on craigslist that we bought him as his b-day present this year. And I keep asking him which he'd rather have for a b-day cake... Elmo, Winnie the Pooh, or trains (his 3 favorites) and he always yells TRAINS! ha ha.

Heidi #1 said...

My boys just love the Geo Trax too. I can't seem to find any these days that are as cool as the originals. You have quite an impressive collection!