A Special Train Set

My ridiculously generous friend who is always giving to me and others gifted us a train and train table. The whole ride home from their house, Kasper kept saying, "A train? For me? Is it my birthday party?". He was so happy to move on from the 4 piece IKEA set he plays with daily that we gave him a year ago. The train table turned out to be a problem to wrestle into the house, I couldn't find a place for it and really wanted to have the trains all laid out so the kids could play with them each day. So I improvised... Home Depot cut me a piece of plywood to fit the train table floor scene. I put lots of felt pads on the bottom of it (those things come in really handy on our white painted floors with lead paint hiding underneath!) and tacked the floor scene to the top of it.

I then cut two fabric straps and looped them to one side of the plywood so the kids could grab the straps and pull the whole setup out from - drum roll please - under Kasper's bed! Perfect solution!

I really do feel so blessed to have such wonderful friends and am thankful for you each day! This train set and table is such a gift to us all, especially mama who can hear the fun from the next room while I am busy working!