- during our pretend play, he'd often say Sherwin is Spencer, I am Edward, and he is always Gordon because he is the #4 engine, while he is turning 4 this month.
- some of his statements would end with a "snorted Gordon", or "puffed James", or "said Diesel", as if he's playing chamber theater
- he has adapted some British English into his vocabulary, like using "glum" and "cross" instead of sad and angry; and "despicable" for disgraceful.
- one of his favorite expressions now is "Pah!" and he says "Rubbish!" or "Bossy sprockets!"
- he reads Thomas books a lot to the point that he can read them by himself.
- he likes to do Thomas karaoke.
- the Thomas CD has to be played in the car whenever he's there. If we don't play it, he'll say he will pretend it's still being played and he will sing them.
- he refuses to throw the leaflets that come with the toys even if they are torn and have been scotch-taped over and over.
- he knows that the Sights and Sounds set comes with a storage bench, and the Roundhouse Set comes in a Thomas storage box, and he says they are not the same.
- I asked him which story has used the words "pah", "rubbish" and "bossy sprockets", and he told me right away that those words were used in "Thomas and the Rumours", "James and the Trouble with Trees" and "Little Engines can do Big Things", and he even showed me the pages.
Kinda eerie! The good thing is he loves CARS too now, so it's not all Thomas anymore.
