OK, looks as though health has returned to both boys simultaneously (and my wife is well on her way back too!) and with it, restored interest in breaking out the wood trains and setting up a track in the living room. Now, not so long ago, they would have begged and pleaded with dear old dad to build a track for them, but recently they've preferred to go it alone. Now this usually involves setting up track layouts with lots of long, fairly straight, lengths, a few bridges and curves and lots of forks, even bridges, that just go nowhere. In fact, without jumping track and "flying" to the next part of the track, these are not complete circuits at all.
Just a few months ago, if I set up a circuit and a foot accidentally broke it apart somewhere, there would be vocal panic, followed by desperate pleas to restore the break. But now, who needs a complete circuit at all? So as the younger one's train "Clickety-Clacks" down a straight track only to run out near the couch and who cares if the track just ends, the ride continues right onto the carpet.
Sorta like when they get that present you thought they would love and they do, in fact, they love the picture of it on the box so much that they prefer the box to the actual toy inside. Where's the track? Who NEEDS a track? OK, probably my boys will in a few weeks, but let them enjoy their flying trains while it lasts! I know I will.
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