Mouse In The House

Our 3 year old, Jason, has a hereditary fascination with trains. So does his brother, Jeremy. My husband being the railroad fanatic that he is, has exposed our children from the day we've brought them home from the hospital, to this hobby of his. It's a good thing, we all have our hobbies in this house. Anyway, when we started house hunting 10 years ago, one of the items on my husband's wish list was, a house with a big basement. It's been his childhood dream to have a permanent model train layout. We found the house with the basement, and he has slowly but surely, finished the basement and has set up his railroad...it's a work in progress.
Any opportunity Mr. Jason gets to go to the basement...he heads to the layout. The problem is, he's always breaking something, moves trains from one place to another, looses something my hubby needs, etc. So dear husband decided to put up a gate so when he's not home, Mr. Jason has no access to the train area. But lo and behold, he still gets in there!

"Oh no, I've been caught red handed!"

The "little mouse", has been sneaking in through another side, mind you, he has to go through a stack of paint cans, a small hamper, a portable plastic rolling cart, and through a space that's about 6 inches wide

But the look on his face says it all!

Since the benchwork where the tracks are is so high, that's no deterrent

He'll move this stool all around the layout!


Here are a few more pictures of our "mouse" in action

And a few more shots of the layout

At least he is enjoying himself, that's all that really matters!

Have a great day.

Huggies,

Rosa