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Is it normal for two-year olds to be so creative?  Isaac is always building things and pretending that different objects are trucks or trains.  Lately whenever I give him a straw it turns into a ‘digger’ and drives around the table.  He makes the most interesting trucks with his blocks and he regularly turns household items into trains.  The other night he emptied my cupboard to make a train as I was fixing dinner.  He’d sit on the cookie sheet behind the pressure cooker and say “Isaac in train” then he got up, moved back to a cookie sheet farther down the line and said” Isaac in train car.”  He then decided that he needed to eat dinner on his train.  He took his bowl of pasta off the table, grabbed a fork and sat down on my cookie sheet and started eating!

Lately Isaac has been fascinated by trains. He has loved trucks for awhile so I guess trains were a natural expansion. It was probably about a month ago when I took him to the library for the first time. I was looking for books on cars and trucks and the librarian suggested one about trains. Isaac’s face lit up as I handed him the book to look at. When I went to check out the books he wouldn’t give it to me or trade with me for another book. He actually cried when I took it for two seconds to scan it! He carried that book around for days. Since then he’s been demonstrating his interest in several different ways. His favorite thing to build with his blocks is a train. Uncle Bryan gave him some pieces of life cereal for breakfast and Isaac pretended they were trains. He would drive little crumbs of cereal across the table saying ‘choo choo, chuga, chuga, chuga, choo choo.’ Last night at dinner he put his little toes up on the table (I know bad manners) and pretended that his toes were a train! He also lined up several of his trucks to make them into a train. Today he climbed up to my computer and started playing with the keyboard so I opened a word document. He typed a series of letters across the page, and then made train noises to indicate that the letters were now a train!