choo-choo

Big guy's obsession with trains has suddenly skyrocketed! Before we would watch Thomas the Train on sunday mornings and he would be interested- a couple whoa's, but not too much fanfare. But over the past two weeks, big guy has learned that trains = Choo choo noises! Which are totally fantastic if you are a toddler!!!

When we went up to the strasburg railroad, the hubs took video of one of the trains and it puffs, whistles, and choo-choo's. Hubs put it on youtube and big guy is really into it. And then we just started watching other steam engine train videos and voila- obsession. We heard a little boy call a train a choo-choo, so I started saying it to big guy and now he says it all the time. When he wakes up in the morning, "choo-choo!" And even cuter- he does the little hand movement of pulling the string to make the noise. You know- bent elbow, fist in the air, pulling down. so precious. And he will point at the computer and say choo-choo b/c he knows that is where we watch them.

The other day we were picking up hubs from the train and we got there early to sit on the bench and watch some trains. OMG- I think we should just go sit at the train station for an activity. We saw two trains pass before hubs's train came. Full on joyful screams and choo-choo screams with the hand motion.

Right before hubs's train, a mom with two little ones came. Her older son was probably four years old and was talking about the trains. Big guy did his arm pump and choo-choo to show off. The mom asked how old he was and I told her- 18 months. She did a surprise face (which most people give me b/c he's so big) but she said she was really impressed that he understood the hand movement and the noise meant a train! Wow- another mom was impressed with him. I beamed! Mensa, here we come ;)