This is interesting.
On my way to relax and watch a little TV while the boys played quietly, I saw Elias building a couple of towers out of his bricks and and then attaching the train tracks to the top.
A little while later, he came and asked me for help. I knew just what he wanted to do as he explained to me his plan for building an elevated railway, and I showed him how to put together all the pylons and connect the tracks in a circle. I ended up doing most of the work, actually, because he seemed to have a problem with making all the pylons the same height.
After trying out the train he'd built earlier (you can see the little "Daddies" - that's what he calls them - riding on the train cars), he told me he wanted to make a tunnel for it to go through, so I built that too and put it just where he wanted it.
Wendy thought it looked like the Disney World monorail, which it sort of does.
We were lucky with this in that Graham didn't destroy it right away. Graham always wants to play with whatever Elias is playing with, especially blocks or trains. He loves to stand up next to the train table and throw train cars around and rip up track like Godzilla, or push down and smash whatever Elias builds with his blocks. Elias starts out tolerating this, but get frustrated with Graham quickly: "Get this baby away from me!" if we are lucky, or a push followed by a screaming baby if we are not.
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3 comments:
I can't believe I'm going to see them tomorrow - I am so excited. Love you all, Grandma Norma
And for Elias to forgive Graham for knocking everything down is divine!
OK, that made me laugh!
Unfortunately, I think Elias may never forgive Graham. I have visions of him at age 40 in therapy dealing with the trauma of having all his creations destroyed by the very same person who came in and knocked him off his only-child throne.
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