Thomas

We used to be big Thomas the Train fans around here. Porter especially was a Thomas expert. I think he had 90% of the trains made. He knew all of their names, what their jobs were, stories about each of them, etc. He never went anywhere without taking at least a few of the trains with him. Dallin liked them too, but was never as big a fan as Porter. Porter probably hasn't played with any of the trains in about a year though. I finally packed up the trains several months ago. When I did, Porter was worried I was going to give them away. Even though he doesn't play with them anymore, he still loves them and doesn't want anyone else to have them. Now they all reside in boxes in his closet. Anyway, even though neither of the boys really plays with trains anymore, they both wanted to go to Day Out With Thomas this year. We are going to go on Thursday. In preparation, Dallin wanted to watch an episode of Thomas tonight. Porter acted annoyed about the whole thing, saying how dumb Thomas is and how much he didn't want to watch it. About 5 minutes in though, Porter had put aside his coloring project and was sitting on the couch, enjoying Thomas. He played the little guessing games that are in each episode and sang along with the song at the end. He even asked me to start it over so he could watch the beginning part he had missed.

Dallin has a new favorite book. It is called "I'm a Big Brother." I got it for Porter before Dallin was born to prepare him. Dallin found it in Porter's bookshelf and wants to read it every night. He wishes Porter could be a baby so that he could be a big brother (Porter would probably be happy to oblige. I think a part of him doesn't like being the older brother. He would kind of prefer to be the baby sometimes). Dallin loves to comment during the book about how babies poop in their diapers and eat mush. I told him that babies mostly just drink milk and he added, "and they eat mush" very matter-of-factly. He considers himself an expert on babies.

Speaking of being an expert, Dallin gave a talk in primary a little while ago and now believes that he should speak every week. Porter gave the prayer on Sunday and Dallin kept asking me when it would be his turn.