Thank goodness we live in a metropolitan area that has a lot of trains, because otherwise, I might be driving for miles to satisfy what can only be classified as choo-choo obsession. The symptoms have been getting worse, and of course, we can only be too happy to keep feeding the habit. It started with family dinners at the Bartlett Tavern, where Luke could see trains coming into the station. He then started realizing we were heading in the general direction of the train station and exclaiming in a desperate voice, "Choo-choo!" Heaven forbid you would make a turn AWAY from the direction of the train station at that point. Needless to say, we tend to go places via a railroad crossing, which lucky for us, are bountiful.
Then, Grandma Bucciero brought a Thomas toothbrush for Christmas, which plays the theme song. The toothbrush could not just be left to be content in the bathroom, no. It has to accompany Luke to various places in the house and play constantly until we can distract him to turn it off. But, seeing as though it was hard to understand the words, I decided to try and find the lyrics online...I figure I might as well embrace it as best as possible, right? Well, I exposed Luke to the world of You Tube, which led to purchasing a Thomas the Tank Engine video to avoid being camped at the computer for long stretches. He only cares to watch the Sing A Long part (this is one musical kid...yay!) and really, considering he has never been even remotely interesting in TV, I really can't complain. Tonight on the way home from school, he says his usual, "Choo-choo" and then says, "Choo-choo TV." And so it goes.
I'm just so excited that he's taken to something that I've planned lots of train assorted goodies for the big birthday weekend. Hooray!!
Other than the unusual long stretch of super cold weather (we probably have over a foot of snow still on the ground and haven't been near freezing for weeks), there really isn't too much new with us. We enjoyed a nice time over New Years catching up on things and having some family time, and now we look forward to a wonderful 2nd Birthday weekend!!
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Wow, Luke is Paul all over again. Of course, we didn't have videos for Paul - but we did do the whole coveralls, hat, ride from Kirkwood to Downtown, and Museum of Transportation visit. We'd pile into the car when we heard the whistle from the local train blow and go sit and watch the train go by - many times at least 100 cars. Glad Luke embraced a fun obsession :)
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