Tuesday, January 6, 2009

Day #15, Role Playing...Cars and Trains

My son has this addiction to cars & trains since he first saw them. Everytime we're in a store or grocery he always find his way towards the toy car shelf. Amazingly he knows where to find them. I guess that's just how it is when you really love something, you always find traces of their whereabouts.
"Cars"
"Mommy's Favorite Car"
"School Bus"
"Same Colors"
"Same Design"

When he sees a toy car that sits still he will say "Daddy, car not moving". When he lines up his toy cars or when he sees lines of cars over the window he will say "Daddy, there's a traffic jam". When he hears siren, he is immediately reminded of a "fire-truck or a police car". I really am surprised on how he absorbs everything so well, especially when it comes to cars & trains. Be it in a shelf in a toy store or even in a miniature of condo unit displays. He will simply say "Car inside the basement" and he refused to leave the area as if there is something that he wanted to see in detail.
"His Currently Favorite Movie & His Favorite Race Tracks"
From our apartment KL-LRT line 2 (I think) and KL Monorail are among the views we see frequently (well, apart from the road full of cars which he likes to watch as well). The kid being an addict to trains as well will immediately shout, "Chaga-Chaga" (Based from Jojo the clown I guess) followed by a "Woo-Hooo" (from one of the books we used to read to him). Once he was so obsessed with Thomas the tank engine that he even sleeps with them. Also inside a mall he will say "buy toy" and we really need to buy one just for him to leave the toy store. Smart kid he really knows how to use the word "Please...." and it really sounded so sweet when he says that.

"Thomas Train Tracks"
In the process, I realized that having him introduced to these toys made him closer to me. He usually say "Daddy...play with you" pulling any part of my body and then asking me to sit on the floor and play with him. We play together, I am the builder and he is the destroyer *grin*. I set up everything for him and he being impatient of what the outcome of what I am doing is, plays at the same time. Many times I feel so frustrated because he normally destroys whatever that I am starting to build *sigh* (bad daddy). Later I realized that he might be doing it for us to play longer, who knows... :-)

The best part of having toy cars and toy trains in the house is that we have a father and son bonding... that is "priceless" no matter how expensive those toys are. I don't care what will be his next interest as long as he tags us along in it, then its worth it.

the other side of the story is, Mommy has to clean up the mess we both made (we love you Mommy).

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