So my son is big on trains lately... before he got his trains he would line his cars up like trains and scoot them everywhere. But now we have more than one train with little magnetic links and so he lines them up and they go everywhere!!!
So I've been cleaning out things, getting ready for baby number two to grace us with her presence, and my son of course is following me everywhere I go, "helping"... he's a really good "helper" generally. I was cleaning out Nathan's shelves for extra bin storage, and he found a little metal hook that you use for picture frames (and who know what else you may want to hang on the wall) in something or other and took it too his trains and started playing with it... because you know that trains hook together, right? I don't know how he figured this out because I walked in on the middle of this (because he was being oh so quiet... you know what that means...). He had figured out that the magnet would pick up the hook on one side then he would slide the next train right behind and the magnet of the second train would pick up the other side of the hook and the trains were hooked together and he could pull them all over. Once I saw this I added paper clips to his play and we ended up with:
The two "hooks" together didn't work as well, but he could "hook" all three of his trains and the tender together and it became a super long train.... Lets just say he was in heaven. 
He played like this all day long!!! I'm not even joking! And that's a long time for a two year old to be interested in something! 
Nice eye hand coordination, fine motor skills being developed here! (there's the teacher in me talking) 
He's got the hook in the front of the train and is pulling the train using the hook. 
Isn't he so cute????
I took these pictures by the way... once in a while even I get good shots.
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