A few months back I felt like Kip's interest in trains was finally waning. There were days when our living room floor was bare with no tracks. It felt like a bit of a milestone. But, for some unknown reason, Kip started requesting the train shows again and building again and it all just continues to ramp up. Again.
Kip is getting so proficient that he will build elaborate tracks all by himself with minimal to no help from us. And sometimes a lot of help from us and a lot of tears in the process. It depends, but the floor is filled again! And Ivy loves to join in when he will allow it. His favorite is still the small wooden tracks ("little trains" as he calls them) as they are the most open ended and he has a TON of them. He also really likes the Duplo Lego trains and then he has three sets of the battery powered remote Lionel trains. He also still pushes the die-cast "table trains" along the dining room table as well.
A few weeks ago they had a theme week at school and one of the days was dress like your future career. Kip wore his train conductor hat. He talks often of how he will be a train engineer when he gets big. Although it is a bit of a dying/niche career, if Kip still wants to do that when he grows up - I'd be glad to climb aboard his train any day.
We've come a long way with this little interest of his and I'm glad he has something he enjoys so much.
The other night, I asked Kip if he loved me more than trains. He paused and said, "I love trains and you." So, that's where I rank.
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