Two weeks ago Chris (hubby), Stephanie (sis-n-law) and I were in New Orleans at a holiday show selling our fragrance line, while we were gone my Mom and Ralph kept Jayden (thank you both for this he had a great time). BUT this is where the trouble began!!!!!.....
Since Jayden has fallen in love with the train that goes around our Christmas tree my mom thought it would be a good idea to introduce Jayden to Thomas the Train and the videos! Well it was a huge hit! Jayden Loved the Thomas video and anything that remotely looks or sounds like a train. He loved the movie so much that after Jayden wore out the 1st video (and Ra-Paw and GiGi could quote the whole thing) Ra-paw went to the store and bought $65 more dollars worth of Thomas videos. This has now become such a huge obsession that now when I get Jayden out of his crib in the morning the first words he says are no longer those beautiful words that bring tears to my eyes, "hi Mommy"! Oh no the first thing he says in the morning is, "Where Thomas"? (This also brings tears to my eyes just not tears of joy)!!! So we go downstairs and lay him in our bed and start the Thomas video and we eat breakfast in bed while he watches Thomas. I know your thinking this is silly but a few crumbs in bed sure beats a screaming, crying all out temper tantrum!
In addition, our bed time routine now consists of walking around the house saying night night to "ALL" the Thomas engines and friends and the train that goes around the tree, the Thomas video etc. This can be quite a process some nights.....And thanks to my wonderful parents we no longer can even ride in the car without having a Thomas video playing on the car TV. I now dream in Thomas the train! Thank you GiGi and Ra-Paw we are now buying even more Thomas things for Christmas due to my child's complete OBSESSION that you created!
Advise to other parents out there beware of Thomas the train!
And a special thanks to Uncle Tregre and Aunt Andrea for taking Jayden to see the train exhibit at the mall yesterday....Jayden did his best to tell me all about it when I got home! I cant wait to see the picture
Thomas train tracks....
Jayden driving a train into poor Hailey
Watching the Thomas video on TV one last night before bedtime!
Sitting on a train at the mall....there was no way he was going to let us leave without him sitting on the train!
