A day with Thomas the Tank Engine

As little Monkey loves trains and Thomas and his friends in particular I though he would love to meet them at the local steam railway. He was very excited and he hardly could sleep the night before. However, once we were there he suddenly got scared that we might get lost. He recently got a book in which the train follows the green light and ends up driving all the way through France, Spain, Italy and Switzerland before returning home without knowing that they had left England. He thought that might happen to us too. No argument could persuade him otherwise. He was so upset he didn't even want to see Thomas.

 It took a lot of persuasion to get him onto the carriage pulled by Emily the Engine. Not even a Thomas flag could cheer him up.

Only on our way back he relaxed and believed us that we wouldn't get lost.

Trains, trains, trains...

As so often Little Monkey set up one of his many train tracks. This is Thomas' shed with a really long train from the Brio train set. For some reason he didn't like me take a photo and ran away hopping up and down screaming no, nooo, noooo photo.


Then suddenly he insisted on me taking a photo. But just the way he wanted it. He told me where to point the camera and what should be on the photo.

On the tube

Little Monkey simply loves looking out of windows of trains. Preferable at other trains passing.

365 - 079 Trains!!

Guess what we did on Sunday? Yep, train tracks and it was the best one yet. At least that's what Little Monkey said.

The train set

I think I mentioned before how much Noah loves the train set we own. He can play for ages with it and it is always the first one he plays with when he gets up in the morning, comes back from nursery or any trip outside the house.


He concentrates really hard on fixing the track and keeping the train on the tracks which is really hard as Emily, the green steam engine doesn't fit on the brio track, she belongs to Thomas the Tank Engine which we don't have. She is the one he tried to nick when he visited the Transport Museum in Covent Garden for the first time. The attempt was spotted quickly and one red faced nanny had to back track to the museum and confess to his sins and buy the engine. It wasn't the worst buy, he plays with it every day and tries to make her stay on the tracks. Hopefully Santa sees the blight of this little boy and helps out.

Trains, Trains, Trains

Oh, how he loves trains! Little Monkey adores trains, whether they are tube trains, steam trains or regular train. Big trains, little trains, Thomas the Tank engine, Brio, Lego - he loves them all. Nothing better than sitting in a train and riding along. Nothing is more interesting than the promise to go on a train ride.


He hangs out of the window so he spot the locomotive. Once he has to get off he stands in front of the train and stares adoringly at it. This is in Exbury Gardens, where the Rothschilds collected rhododendrons. Well, one of them had a "disease" incurable but not fatal as the train driver told us, it's called train obsession. Oh, no I thought, Little Monkey got that! Maybe he will grow out of it? But so far he shows no signs of healing. I don't think we can do what the Rothschilds did... build a proper narrow train track with a steam engine in our back garden.