Train Track Fun

Lately, the boys have been spending hours a day playing together with their wooden train track. Ethan figured out about a week ago how to interlock the wooden pieces by himself, so he is now a cooperative player instead of "The Destroyer". Caleb is a little bossy about where the pieces go, but he is getting better every day with "Letting Et'an make some choices, so he will like playing with me" (as he echoes my regular reminders). They've never played peacefully together for such a long time as they have with this train thing. Sometimes I can unload and reload the dishwasher and get a good start on dinner without hearing a peep from either of them for 20 minutes or so. After mediating every joint activity since Ethan could crawl, it is incredibly enjoyable to watch them playing together without any help from me.