Who Knew

The boys received a Caterpillar train set from their Papa for Christmas. Jack has been asking to open it up and finally Paul did yesterday afternoon while Jack was napping. He got it all set up for him and figured it would provide some good entertainment for a while in the evening. What we did not expect was almost three solid hours of  "playing" with the train. Mainly he just sat or laid in the middle and watched it go around and around and around. He liked turning it on an off, though Paul had to do the off because Jack didn't like doing the switch while the train was moving. He also didn't like it when the train went in reverse, so he had to quickly learn which way to flip the switch for forward. Sometimes he would take a tractor off and play with it, but mainly he just watched it go around. I calculated and the train probably made close to a thousand circles last night. And Jack watched almost every one of them. Who knew? And of course this morning the first thing he did was run down stairs and turn the train on. He's been up for nearly 3 hours and the train is still running and we are still sitting here watching it.