Focused Kid

For a month, Xander has been asking for a Geotrax train set.

We have told him it might or might not happen, and he needed to be good, and there were no guarantees, and dear-God-enough-already-don't-ask-again.

The persistence was impressive, as was the confidence. "Is today Christmas? I'll get my Geotrax."

We finally bought a set for him. I was torn between returning them (I don't want him to assume that everything he wants will always materialize with no effort), and keeping them (he really wants them, he seems to spend a lot of time with them at other friends' houses, it can be a good imagination set). We finally bought them, and gave them to him as the last gift on Christmas morning.

Good thing! Once we set it up, he ignored EVERYTHING else for almost 3 hours, while he played with the set. He was excited about several other gifts (matchbox cars and a matchbox play set, etch-a-sketch, Speed Racer Mach 5 car, trains for his train set), but I was impressed with his attention span at age 2 3/4. He has some serious focus sometimes.