Today, I am mother of the year
So you thought U2 was the hottest ticket in town? Check this out, baby. If you have preschoolers in your life, this makes U2 seem like your high-school boyfriend's garage band.
We just scored tickets that will make us the coolest parents in the universe, in the estimation of three-year old Tristan. We scored tickets to go see A Day Out With Thomas. A life-sized Thomas the Tank Engine that we will actually board for a jaunt around lovely St Thomas, Ontario. Can't you just imagine Tristan's little head exploding when he gets a look at that?
I've mentioned Tristan's Thomas obsession before. Thomas and his friends have played a role in the milestones of Tristan's life, not to mention his coming-of-age as a consumer. We have wooden trains, we have metal trains, we have plastic trains (in four sizes, no less), we have DVDs, we have VHS tapes, we have books, we have stickers. We have burned CDs of downloaded Thomas music, we have several Thomas Web sites bookmarked. For my THREE year old. We even have a Thomas pillow on his bed, for goodness sake.
I guess they have a couple of these Thomas extravaganza road shows travelling around North America each summer, but they rarely venture into Canada. St Thomas, for those of you not familiar with Southern Ontario, is just down the road from London, where I grew up. It's a six hour drive (or sixteen, if you are driving with two preschoolers) that I used to make once a month before my folks moved up here in 2003. So we're hauling the kids across the province in July to see a big blue train. And I'm as excited about this as I have been about any vacation since our honeymoon. Wait, this is the first vacation since our honeymoon!
So when we pull into the Elgin County Railway Museum this coming July and set Tristan free in the mecca of all things Thomas, I will be for that shining instant, the coolest mother in the world.
I hope this isn't the pinacle of motherhood for me. I hope that some future day in my sons' lives, I will be as cool as I am today. I doubt it, but I am still hoping.
We just scored tickets that will make us the coolest parents in the universe, in the estimation of three-year old Tristan. We scored tickets to go see A Day Out With Thomas. A life-sized Thomas the Tank Engine that we will actually board for a jaunt around lovely St Thomas, Ontario. Can't you just imagine Tristan's little head exploding when he gets a look at that?
I've mentioned Tristan's Thomas obsession before. Thomas and his friends have played a role in the milestones of Tristan's life, not to mention his coming-of-age as a consumer. We have wooden trains, we have metal trains, we have plastic trains (in four sizes, no less), we have DVDs, we have VHS tapes, we have books, we have stickers. We have burned CDs of downloaded Thomas music, we have several Thomas Web sites bookmarked. For my THREE year old. We even have a Thomas pillow on his bed, for goodness sake.
I guess they have a couple of these Thomas extravaganza road shows travelling around North America each summer, but they rarely venture into Canada. St Thomas, for those of you not familiar with Southern Ontario, is just down the road from London, where I grew up. It's a six hour drive (or sixteen, if you are driving with two preschoolers) that I used to make once a month before my folks moved up here in 2003. So we're hauling the kids across the province in July to see a big blue train. And I'm as excited about this as I have been about any vacation since our honeymoon. Wait, this is the first vacation since our honeymoon!
So when we pull into the Elgin County Railway Museum this coming July and set Tristan free in the mecca of all things Thomas, I will be for that shining instant, the coolest mother in the world.
I hope this isn't the pinacle of motherhood for me. I hope that some future day in my sons' lives, I will be as cool as I am today. I doubt it, but I am still hoping.
Said DaniGirl at 6:48 a.m. #
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