Turntable Goodness
The boy had some birthday money (thank you family!) so we went to our favorite mom and pop toy store for some fun. It was the first time we’ve said “You have x amount of money and you can choose what to buy with it.”
It should come as no surprise the boy chose trains and train accessories! We did peruse some cars, marble runs (I still want one of those!), books and puzzles, but if you ask him what he really, really wants, the answer is going to involve trains.
He picked out two things:
A turntable and a train called Mighty Mac that has two faces. Mac is cool — he can face either way! Boo was quite excited by this.
As far as the turntable goes, we’ve always resisted it because they are usually attached to a roundhouse and we have deemed the roundhouse to be an excessive and useless waste of space. However lately he’s been more into the train items that involve some finesse — train table, washdown station, etc. So we relented and it was the right decision. The turntable is awesome! The lad LOVES it!
It also cleverly solves one of our more troublesome dilemmas — making the track run correctly either way, so you don’t get “stuck” going one direction. Now, however, all of these problems are gone. Don’t like the way you’re going? Turn around on the turntable! Brilliant!
Then the other day H went upstairs while the lad was playing and found this:
Boo had taken all of the extra track pieces and made his own little track on the floor. What a clever little engineer. There shall be no waste! Somehow I feel like we’re doing good 