Thomas Part Two

About 2 or 3 years ago, Jacob was mad keen on Thomas the Tank Engine but, as with most things in Jacob's life, he went off it completely after a while. So by the time Sam was able to take notice of such things, Jacob had moved on to Spiderman, Batman, Transformers, Ben 10 et al, and for a while Sam was happy to watch these programmes, play with the toys and wear the clothes/dressing up outfits. Which was ok (ie it led to less arguments about what was on the tv etc), but I couldn't help feeling that Sam was missing out a bit on the stuff that was more suitable for his age.

Anyway, on Sam's third birthday, he was bought a couple of Take-along-Thomas toys and some train track; my initial reaction was that Sam wasn't going to be interested in them - after all, we've got a box full of Thomas stuff from the first time around, and on the rare occasions I'd managed to wrest the remote control away from Jacob, he'd shown no interest in watching the tv programme. However, something must have sparked within him, because now Sam is a fully paid up member of the Thomas the Tank Engine Fan Club. And as such, a visit to the Thomas Day Out at the Bolton Abbey/Embsay Steam Railway was a must for a Bank Holiday Saturday.

Here he is driving the train:-



With Bertie the Bus:-


And showing a great desire to have his photo taken with Daddy and another of the tank engines (note that lip making a guest appearance):-


He's also (courtesy of the books) a great fan of the Mr Men and his favourite item of clothing is a Mr Tickle top. He also has Mr Happy Adidas trainers (don't blame me, I didn't buy them for him), Mr Bump and Mr Happy t-shirts, a Mr Happy umbrella and Mr Men underpants. He has also developed his own sign language for the various Mr Men, and is making a very good stab at actually saying their names too.

And I'm just happy that he's coming out from under Jacob's shadow and developing his own tastes and interests. Even if it does make for more arguments over the tv remote ;)

Monkeys!!

These two pictures just about sum up Jacob and Sam at the moment:-


and:-


He can get that lip out by well over an inch, its quite an achievement.

But most of the time, they are just both cheeky monkeys par excellence:-

5 Today

Where did the time go? It doesn't seem five minutes since Jacob looked like this:-


And now he looks like this:-



(that's not actually taken today, he's got chickenpox and is covered in spots, so no photos atm, I think)

Mummy in Stereo

Sam has now mastered "mummy", so when I'm in the kitchen and he comes up behind me saying "mummy, mummy", I honestly don't know which child it is until I turn round. Which is nice. However, now I have two of them going "mummy, mummy" every moment of the day - arghhh!!

Jacob has also taught Sam to say "bum".

*sigh*