One thing I am loving right now is Elsie's and Delia's love of trains, cars, trucks and all things transportation. Don't get me wrong, I think dolls, stuffed animals, people, and kitchen play is totally great and fun and obviously a very natural draw for many girls (mine included!) but MAN was I tired of the constant baby doll diapering and feeding and carrying around right about this age, with Emma. Now, I am learning all sorts of great things, like the difference between a skid-steer loader versus a backhoe versus a regular old dump truck (the current favorite, I think). We just watched our first episode ever of Thomas the other day (Emma has always been totally uninterested), and I am afraid to say it was a hit!
The trains that Santa brought for Christmas have been really fun, too! Elsie and Delia still need a lot of help with the tracks (I have been known to spend way too much time after they have gone to bed making up cool new tracks, heh), and both mostly want to play with the one motorized engine (that yellow one) that we currently have. They tend to leave it on so it wears out FAST and 90% of the time the batteries are dead! The other day I set them up in the kitchen, which gave us a bit more space than the usual train/coffee table they usually play on, and they had a lot of fun...
Elsie in blue stripes, Delia in the red train shirt!
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Nicole, Elsie and Delia both have a love/hate relationship with the garbage trucks, too. Due to our location we literally have 7-8 passings of them on garbage day. Both have gone through stages of crying and freaking out anytime they hear one coming. Other times, they are very intrigued!
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