Trains

Quinn's in a big trains phase. We read Thomas the Tank Engine books that Bec got from the library and they're a big hit. They're well done, with 4 self-referential stories in a book, so there's some continuity and he gets to know the characters. The characters make mistakes and learn from them. The books are also a smaller physical size so Quinn can hold them easily. He often grabs the books on his own, climbs up on the couch and looks at the pictures and tells himself stories, babbling away to himself.

Bec requested the compendium from the library and you should have seen the look on his face when Bec produced it at home. His face lit up in a huge smile (he's becoming *much* more expressive, smiling and laughing and...oh yeah some of the bad stuff as well...) and he held his arms up. "Weed! Weed!" he said. It has even supplanted Richard Scarry, at least for the moment, which is saying something (it probably helps that we hid those, in self defense).

We've got some of the small Thomas trains too (Percy, Thomas and Bertie if you're keeping score) and he loves those too. He's stopped calling them tugga-tugga's, and Bec laments that his little-boyness is starting to wane, but certainly trains are a big hit right now.