The Rebuild

We are learning that we are at the stage with Carter now where we have to be careful what we say around him. Not that what we say can't be repeated (um... well, maybe just a few things :))... it's just that he repeats everything over and over and over. Or I'll forget he's listening when we are talking about a bedtime and he'll chime in that he's actually not planning to go to bed. He hears everything!

Well, last night he asked us to leave his train tracks in the living room EXACTLY like they were after we put him to bed. We said ok just to get him to go to bed. About an hour after we put him down I couldn't handle the mess anymore... so Dan started to pick it up. Not long after that we could hear Carter crying from upstairs. I went up to see what was wrong. It was the train tracks!! He could hear the wooden pieces going back into the storage box. We said we were sorry and promised an awesome track for him the next morning. Dan spent the next half hour rebuilding a very cool track.... complete with trains and passengers...

The birthday boy admiring his work. Yep... today is Dan's birthday!!

The Richard Scarry characters waiting at the train station for their ride.

This was mine from when I was a kid. My sisters and I called it BART because it reminded us of the heavy rail system in the SF Bay Area. I love that Carter plays with it now.

All the trains on their way down the track...

Carter loved it when he came downstairs this morning... and it's actually still spread out across the living room floor...