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This morning Marcus was stroking Emmy's hair nicely.

Marcus: Soft....just like Whiskers fur. (he's our cat)

HAD to laugh at this!

My entire universe seems to revolve around Thomas the Train and all his friends these days.  If anybody wishes to make Marcus's day, just give him anything to do with trains.  Anything at all.  Underwear with trains on them would likely make his day.  Socks, clothes, colouring books, you name it.

Now, trains aren't such a bad thing for him to be interested in, it could be worse. He could be interested in Barbies.  That being said though, I kid you not, EVERYTHING is about trains.  He is hungry and asks for a snack.  What would you like Marcus?  Train food.  What makes mommy happy is that I can still tell him ANYTHING is train food.  Why is he now eating Oatmeal for breakfast instead of the usual plain toast he has been eating for a year!  HAHA!  Score one for mommy!  Since I started typing this out Marcus has come to me because his colouring book wasn't good enough, Train book? Train book?  Then he found his missing train shorts somewhere and brought them to me while stripping off his others.  Train shorts? Train shorts?  He has train movies, he goes to the Thomas website and plays trains, he has regular and Thomas trains, he got to go to the train store for earning potty stickers, he has Thomas books, and he has even named his regular trains names from the Thomas movie.  All except one which is named Torque.  (???)

The problem with all this?  I don't wanna hear another word about Thomas!  I also don't want to deal with a fit everytime I say no to something to do with trains.  No Marcus, you cannot take all your trains to bed (that's asking for trouble!) and he throws a fit.  No Marcus, you cannot watch a train movie....fit.  No, Marcus your train colouring book is so used it is now in about 5 different pieces we cannot use it anymore....fit.  The worst are watching his special train shows shows upstairs in our room while playing with all his trains of course. Say no to that, you have a good 15 minute problem on your hand.  Same thing with no to trains on the computer.

So, all that being said, I'd like to shout out to the creators of Thomas the FREAKING Tank Engine...THANKS A LOT! Oh, and thank you for making your trains so ridiculously expensive, we enjoy paying as much for a train or two as we should be on the entire track set!  And, when we leave the store with only one in hand because of that, we thank you with such words that can only be said in our heads as we attempt to lure our children away without causing the biggest freak show ever recorded.

All this is over freaking trains with faces.  Hmph, and they got rich off that.  Why not make and plaster faces on other objects.....because they will know...they will know they are not trains!