1. To put my now cold breakfast coffee on the sitting room window sill and watch Chuggington with Alec's warm back snuggled against me.
2. It gets to 4.30pm, and I can't face spending the empty half hour before supper at home on this day when I can't do anything right. I put Alec in the backpack and we go down to the station to watch a couple of trains pull out. Alec's little voice in my ear and his waving hand on the edge of my visual field: "Bye toot toot. Bye bye. Bye toot toot. Bye toot. Bye bye toot toot." I can see commuters smiling at us.
3. "Is now a good time?" Cat wonders when she calls.
"Yes! Oh yes, I'm so glad you called. We've had such a day. How did you know?"
You guys sure seem to like trains!
ReplyDeleteChuggington is pretty good!!
ReplyDeleteI've made peace with Chuggington -- I do think it's better quality than some things, and the moral messages actually seem realistic and relevant to real life. And the characterisation is very good.
ReplyDeleteNatalie -- yes we do! It's a cheap, simple way to amuse Alec as we only live three minutes from the station.
Has he discovered Thomas the Tank Engine, the Ringo-narrated version? Essential for the budding locomotophile. L was addicted, Roger learnt to read by learning the words by heart and fitting it to the symbols on the page.
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