Benjamin loves Thomas!

Benjamin is obsessed with Thomas the Train (and all of Thomas' friends). This started when Steve took him shopping during a special Daddy and Ben day in June and he got his first Thomas train ever - 'Talking Thomas'. Ever since, Ben has accumulated many more friends and at least once a day asks to go 'shopping.. Thomas (or fill in the blank with whatever train he currently wants).. soon... tomorrow morning?'. He has a catalog of all the trains and he loves to browse through it to get new ideas as to which trains he would like for his collection. He plays with his trains almost all day, watches almost exclusively Thomas and Friends on TV or on youtube.com (or as Ben says, 'on 'puter'), has a Thomas shirt, Thomas chair, sunglasses, and a Halloween costume he is very excited to wear (he calls it 'Halloween Thomas'). He has around 40 trains right now and knows the names to all of them. He also has the Thomas and Friends theme song memorized (well almost all of it - I will have to get a video of him doing this).

At a Thomas event at Toys-R-Us - note the Thomas shirt and sunglasses

With his Thomas playsets and some of his trains

Naming his trains. He loves this one youtube video of a little British boy naming all of his Thomas trains. At the end of the video, the boy says 'thanks for watching'. Benjamin loves to imitate the boy and after naming his trains, he says 'thanks for watching'. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vOJdIr-t0E