LOOK-OUT!!! Large Lizards Lurk in the Land of Levi's Locomotives

Hey, Thomas,

What are you doing up here on my bookshelf?

Why aren't you on the track with the others?

Oh, I see.  You need a new battery.

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We discovered very early that our son is not a matchbox boy,

or a truck guy,

or even too much of a tractor man.

He's a Locomotive man.

The town where we live sets up a nice train display every year around Christmas time,

and our boy would stay there all day if we let him.

So when I discovered that there is a toy version of these trains,

that won't get broken the first time they are touched,
and don't use batteries like candy...
(The remote control ones do: they use 6 AAA batteries and only last about 4 hours!  The regular battery trains use 1 AA battery that lasts a reasonable amount of time: about a week of being used an hour or two a day)

...of course, I looked into them.

I previously showed you my sons beautful room if you click HERE.




But now it looks like this:

We purchased a set for Christmas for him using some money sent for him from my aunts.

I had to get the waterfall/bridge set off Craigs List because it was sold out everywhere.

We got him a few trains and some extra track.

Grandma got him a set as well.

The track can be taken apart and made to travel where it's newest adventure is planned.

The mother or father often has to play help with this part.

I usually redo the track every week or two to peak a new interest.

It has nothing to do with enjoying the trains myself.

Nothing.

Okay, well,

so I like trains, too.

 Levi loves dinosaurs and dragons,

They add to adventure on the tracks.

 RRRROOOAAARRRR!!!!!

(I imagine this is the way Levi sees it).

 It's fun to make the trains go in and out and all about.

"DANGERS!"

 This waterfall has a trap door that trains may be directed to;

or the trains may go up off the top of the waterfall.

 Diesel 10 sits at the far end of the track with his menacing claw.

Dangers lurk all around in Levi Land.

This has been the best toy we've purchase.  I can't count how many hours both my son and daughter have spent with it.  To make it more enjoyable, it gets packed up and stored in the attic when springtime comes.  It emerges in the fall when school starts.  This gives me the ability to teach Violet while Levi enjoys the trains again.

Of course, I do get asked countless times when the train is coming back.

If you'd like to see a live video of Levi with his trains,

click the link below
Levi's Locomotives 

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