BYE BYE Thomas - NEW things here we Come!

Oh today is a wonderful day! Brad and I were able to talk to Nicolas and finally reason with him about his Thomas the Train toys. Nicolas has had many things that he has been interested in, but for 2 years he has been stuck on Thomas the Train. I swear we should have taken stock in it because we have bought EVERYTHING the company has made.(You think I'm kidding?)

In the last year he has picked up on K'nex, dinosaurs, and anything to do with space. Don't get me wrong he still likes Thomas, but he is starting to realize he likes these other things more. More and more we will find him with a book on space or dinosaurs reading away, or building with K'nex. YAY!

So in light of all this, we got Nicolas to agree that we would not "get rid" of his trains just simply put them up in storage along with his train table. For the first time...... HE AGREED!!!! We made the deal that he could keep out his track to build with, and for every two trains he put up he could keep one out.(He wound up with a nice little container full enough to play with.) He also agreed that we would no longer buy Thomas things as long as he could continue with the new things that he does like.(This made us all VERY happy.)

After all was gone through, and I cleaned the rest of his room, he now has PLENTY of room to play and move around. He was so excited and happy with change that it actually surprised us because we though he would cry when we were done. This is just more proof that he is a big boy and growing up very fast. SAD :(