Thomas and Friends Ardent Fan

Reuben loves Thomas and Friends. We bought every possible Thomas thing that we can find - T-shirt, underwear, singlet, bag, water bottle, socks etc. The only thing he doesn't have is Thomas shoes and he hasn't been to the theme park, Thomas Land. He loves Thomas so much that every night, he needs to hold his Thomas train in his hand before he could fall asleep. In fact, he needs his Thomas train AND Elmo blankie to fall asleep. He takes Thomas train wherever he goes. He wants to buy Spencer and James and Skarloey and Edward and Gordon and ... (no end to that!) We have a side table for him specially to put his favourite set of Thomas. He loves that corner and will go there to meddle with his engines :)

Can you imagine when we accidentally lost his Thomas when we were in Genting on the last night? He cried for his Thomas. We combed through all the toy shops in First World Shopping Mall, not a single Thomas in sight! Before he slept, he asked for his train. He said, "I want my Thomas, it's my favourite!" We felt so bad that immediately once we reached Singapore, we went to Metro to buy him another set of Thomas train. He was ecstatic and volunteered to carry the plastic bag by himself even though he was too short for the bag :)

Reuben is so crazy about Thomas that he has learnt to spell Thomas, way before he can spell his own name. In fact, he started spelling SODOR first (The island of Sodor). I should have named him Thomas instead of Reuben. Haha :) It'll be so much easier for him to spell Thomas Ong! He's an ardent Thomas fan! :)