Train tracks

The first thing little monkey does when we come home from nursery is to run into the playroom and get the box with the train track out. Sometimes he lets me take off his coat. But more often than not he escapes fully dressed up to his woolly hat to get a train out. To get his shoes off we have a wrestling match between the four-way-crossing and the green tunnel... The first train normally starts its journey once we've put down six pieces that are nowhere close to matching up. This has to be accompanied with loud screams of uh-oh. By the time mummy monkey has laid a track that matches up little monkey has long lost interest and the train circles around on its own until it derails or the batteries run out, which ever is first...