Monday, September 03, 2007
More trains . . . .
When Katrina was away Jack and Guy went to dinner with our neighbours. Guy loves spending time with Merryn and the twins Ellen and Fiona, but even more than his girlfriends, Guy loves anything to do with Thomas the Tank Engine. So you can imagine that as soon as he spotted the girls' train set, any social niceties were over as he pulled Jack over and started playing with their trains.
The girls don't have much of an interest in trains now, so you can imagine how ecstatic Guy (and Jack) were when Rosemary handed the train set over to them. It is a train/road set, and has lots of buildings, bridges and tunnels. It didn't stop there however!
Our other neighbours have 2 little boys who don't have much of an interest in trains either, so their Thomas set also came our way, complete with another Percy (Guy's favourite) and some multicoloured tracks.
So Katrina came home to an enormous train set taking up the whole lounge floor, and Guy and Jack barely able to tear themselves away from it.
Guy's happiness was complete when Granny sent him another jersey for next winter, with Thomas on the sleeve. Here he is playing hard with his huge train set.
Unfortunately, all went terribly wrong for Guy when he decided to drive both his Percy's into the nice little engine-size "tunnel" at the bottom of the stereo speaker on the floor next to the TV. Both Percy's disappeared and were not able to be retrieved much to Guy's consternation. Here he is looking for them.
He continued to look and look for them, Jack took the front of the speaker off and couldn't get them out, so Guy was told that they were stuck. When Guy had his nap, Jack had to pull the whole speaker apart (including the glued down bits) to get the engines out. What a mission! They were put away for a few days until Guy realised they might never come back and was so inconsolably sad, Daddy fell at the first hurdle and gave them back to him.
Here is Mummy reading "One Fish, Two Fish" to Guy to distract him from the missing Percy's
The girls don't have much of an interest in trains now, so you can imagine how ecstatic Guy (and Jack) were when Rosemary handed the train set over to them. It is a train/road set, and has lots of buildings, bridges and tunnels. It didn't stop there however!
Our other neighbours have 2 little boys who don't have much of an interest in trains either, so their Thomas set also came our way, complete with another Percy (Guy's favourite) and some multicoloured tracks.
So Katrina came home to an enormous train set taking up the whole lounge floor, and Guy and Jack barely able to tear themselves away from it.
Guy's happiness was complete when Granny sent him another jersey for next winter, with Thomas on the sleeve. Here he is playing hard with his huge train set.
Unfortunately, all went terribly wrong for Guy when he decided to drive both his Percy's into the nice little engine-size "tunnel" at the bottom of the stereo speaker on the floor next to the TV. Both Percy's disappeared and were not able to be retrieved much to Guy's consternation. Here he is looking for them.
He continued to look and look for them, Jack took the front of the speaker off and couldn't get them out, so Guy was told that they were stuck. When Guy had his nap, Jack had to pull the whole speaker apart (including the glued down bits) to get the engines out. What a mission! They were put away for a few days until Guy realised they might never come back and was so inconsolably sad, Daddy fell at the first hurdle and gave them back to him.
Here is Mummy reading "One Fish, Two Fish" to Guy to distract him from the missing Percy's
# posted by Jack and Katrina @ 2:00 pm 
