Thomas the Train

Christine got Rylan a little Thomas the Train set for the gift exchange and he loves it so much! Thomas comes with us everywhere and when we are home he is constantly driving Thomas on the track. The cutest thing is that a little catalog came with it and Rylan LOVES reading it. He spends hours looking at this little 20 page booklet. There is a page that has all the trains from the show and he has so much fun saying to himself "where's percy go?" ...."there he is!"..."where's james (th) go?" ..."oh there he is yay!"

Christmas is coming and I had so much fun decorating with Rylan! He helped put some lights on a bush outside, he helped put the lights on his little tree and hang ornaments he made on it. And he did the cutest ornament hanging job on the big tree we got. He put them all in the same place and hung the really big ones on branches that now touch the ground because of the wait. He is so proud of himself!

No this way Mama!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It started in the car on the way to Trader Joe's to get something yummy to make for breakfast in the morning, Rylan said; "noooo this way Mama!" and pointed the opposite direction of where I turned. I thought it was so cute and I giggled and so did he. But then we got into the store and as I started to go down an isle to get some eggs, Rylan shouted the same thing as he did in the car! I still thought it was cute so I said ok and started the direction he pointed. BUT THEN, he changed directions on me again. I tried to reason with him explaining that we needed to choose a direction so that we could get some eggs for breakfast and he just started to whine and get louder. I tried every distraction I could and he just got louder as we just stood there. I tried telling him that we were going home if he didn't calm himself, and that didn't work so I said,"would you like milk chips and eggs, or do you want to go home" nothing worked. I ended up carrying him out of the store kicking and screaming, then tried talking to him again outside and we still couldn't come to a compromise. SO I ended up telling him that he would have to wait in the car while I got what we needed. He was so upset I thought I could walk away for a few mins and come back and he would be settled down and ready to come back inside.That totally didn't work so I ended up running into the store getting just eggs and going home. This marks the first ever official public tantrum!