For a couple months now we have been potty training our oldest boy. It has been a long challenge and he has been going through potty charts and rewards. For his first reward we got him somethinghe had seen on on a recorded show that was recorded last year. It was the geotrax train system. Looked kinda cool. I looked online for a starter pack and it led me to get him the grand central station.

He loved it! it was awesome. it is easy for a child to put the trax together and they are not confusing. He liked the idea that the train can be played with off the trax too so he  drive it all around the house following it.

The remote is so simple for kids too. A lever that goes back and foward only to control the train so nothing difficult. All the tracks, roads, and whatknots are compatable for this set so you can get the skyscraper that has the roads and it will hook right up to the grand central station that has the tracks.  Very resonable priced too. so you can collect them all overtime and they will rarely get board with it. It is good for kids that are older too. I know my boy will probably play with this for at LEAST 3 or 4 more years (I HOPE!)

But be stocked up in the AAA batteries. It is not a battery eater, unless it is played with a LOT! almost all the individual stations have sounds and motions on them but those do not kill the batteries that bad. It has been almost a month and the fire station is still going but we change the batteries every 2-3 weeks on the train's engine because he uses it a lot.  

The only big complaint is that i have to buy these online so when i do not know when he fills up his potty chart it makes it hard to go out at the last minute to the store to get it i can;t find it.

But so far i have found a decent selection at toysrus.com 

I ran into this little gem of an idea this morning and thought it would be fun to try ( i will post my attempt later)

But this is a wonderful way to do a small part of recycling and reusing of your junk mail or the newspaper ads we toss.  I think this could be done by most people, not too hard and it would be a good one for the older children to do too. I think things like this should be embraced more because it is something you can do with little to no money unlike a lot of the other crafts that bring you to the point of buying out an entire craft store just to get started. Please people remember, use what you have on hand first. It will save you money. then when you are done with that then move on to other things. If you stick with what you have on hand it will force you to use your imagination and expand your mind and talents.

but enought with my rant!

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