12. You are overjoyed to discover a Thomas and Friends iPhone app because you know that it will buy you hours of time while standing in line at stores or riding in the car.
11. When he wanders around the house asking for his Patrick (or insert random AngloSaxon name here) you immediately Google “Thomas and friends Patrick” to figure out what type of toy to search for. Patrick is a concrete truck, btw. And he is hiding under the couch pillows.
10. Every single gift under the Christmas tree sports a Thomas and Friends logo except for a book about going potty, a bucket of Lego Duplos and an 8 pack of Play-doh.
9. You buy Thomas themed wrapping paper because you know he will prefer it.
8. You have stone bruises on the bottom of your feet. But not from stepping on stones. You have bruises from stepping on take-along trains scattered all over your living room floor.
7. He comes to you at lunch time and asks for a peanut butter and sticky jam sandwich.
6. You are wondering if all those Thomas toys you got him for Christmas are going to fit on his existing train table or if you need to build a new one from a 4×8 sheet of plywood.
5. You drive past a construction site and he yells, “Hey Alphie! Hey Max and Monty! Hey Oliver! Byron is stuck in the mucky mud!”
4. Every crane on the side of the road is named Cranky. And it is creaky.
3. His first birthday party had a construction theme, his second birthday party had a Thomas theme, and you cannot come up with a good theme for his third birthday party because the top two favorite things have already been done.
2. You get a new Blu-ray player that connects to the internet on your tv, and the first thing he demands is his favorite Youtube videos of Sklepowich playing with his trains.
1. He gets in the car after preschool and says “Sam wouldn’t move so I shunted him out of the way.”
True stories. All of it. We need help.
The Regal Pup says
Oh my gosh! This is what I have to look forward to. My son is 19 months, and his obsession is just now forming. It is Thomas everything!
Rachel says
Love it! Ali went through a big-time Thomas phase too, and she used to shunt people out of the way! 🙂
…and all cranes are STILL Cranky around here.
Ivana Perak says
We have a 3 yr old who is obsessed with thomas and my husband and I couldn’t help but laugh as I read this to him out loud. 80% fits us haha