So the "basement elves" have been working hard over the past three nights to put together Aidan's main Christmas present. Santa has enlisted these elves and myself to build Aidan's train table for the big day. Santa told me that he needed an engineer to figure out how to take two separate train track sets and combine them to make one cohesive and playable train layout. Being the efficient engineer that I am, I told Santa that we'd make it work, at no cost to him!
The track actually took quite a bit of trial and error, because 1. I had to make it all fit end-to-end and 2. because I only had a limited number of sharp curved pieces, shallow curved pieces, splits and straight pieces. All in all though, I think it came together awesome. I've been spending the last few nights puttying all the gaps and screwing/glueing down all the trees, buildings and track...cause you know that Pookie will probably enforce the "Godzilla" rule and try to wreck it up! Aidan is going to freak when he sees this thing Christmas morning. Here are a few sneak pictures.....
Have a great night!
Engineer Elf Ty
5 comments:
Great job Ty. He will love it!! If only all children good be as lucky as Aidan to have such loving parents. He is so adorable and growing so fast.
Love and kisses. Miss you all!!
Mom
Did you buy an amphibious train to plow through those lakes?
PS: does anyone else open "Word" just to spell-check words? Guilty.
OMG! That is just awesome!!! Great job Tyler...but I don't see a "barbage truck"??? He is going to be sad that there is no barbage truck for him to go past with his new "train set"!!! Just kidding, you are right, he is going to just go crazy when he sees this! AND do not take him down there before Christmas for a "sneek peek"!!!
You both are great parents!
Love,
Mom
Yeah, Kevin, the beach isn't too pretty today. Nothing like looking out at the swelling waves hoping for that beautiful sunset, when BLAM! there's a huge honkin' train track in your way. Oops!
I ran out of pieces to cut the turn any sharper.
Um, I am guilty of using word to spell check. I try not to use really large words like amphibious :)
Our train table is a huge hit to this very day...best 40 bucks we have ever spent! Many a train is fought over. Some are better than others I guess. We use it for a car race track and for the trains. They never come with enough curves!!! That is on T's list this year... more curves for the train set.
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