Chu Chu!!!

Chu, chu!!! Do you hear the train coming? Well, perhaps you can't hear it from where you are sitting, but if you are in our living room you SURE CAN. For Avery's 2nd birthday we bought him a Thomas the Train set. Its HUGE, FUN, EXCITING and well, takes up a large portion of our family room. But, WHO CARES??? This is what having kids is all about.....toys, fun, messes and using their imagination. However, this train track came with everything but the train table. So, being the creative, handy dandy parents that we are (wink, wink) we took it upon ourselves to build a table for Thomas to ride on. See below for the "start to finish" project of Thomas the train and train table.


Started out with a piece of plywood. Gosh, hope there aren't any hurricanes brewin' out there. This plywood was taken from our hurricane plywood stash. (not really, quit believing everything I say)

Covered it with felt and added the legs (yes, we painted the legs)

Added a ledge to hold it all together (yes, we painted the ledge too) Kinda starting to look like a pool table, but wait, put the 8 ball away, it AIN'T a pool table.

WOW!!! The finished product. That is one GINORMOUS train track.

A view from the air. Since this pic was taken we have since added houses, more trains, etc. If you can't picture what I mean, use your imagination....remember, that's what being a kid is about.

Avery seeing his train track all put together for this first time.

This project was well worth our time and effort. Avery and his friends (yes, this includes daddy) play with it everyday. Its neat to see their imagination working and exploring with this new piece of "family room furniture".