Meet the "friends"

Meet Natalie's newest friends....Thomas (Mickey), Percy (Minnie), Gordon (green M&M), and James (Abby Cadabby).

Natalie has recently become very interested in Thomas the Tank Engine & his Friends. It is a tv series as well as books and movies that features many different trains. I knew very little about it until Natalie became so interested in Thomas (which started out with playing with the trains at Books-a-Million). It is actually a very old series of books written from the 1940s to the 1970s that was then made into a tv program in Great Britian that first aired over 25 years ago. (That is your daily dose of Thomas trivia.)

Natalie's fascination with the trains has now extended into her imaginative play (which continues to amaze us) and she has renamed all of her stuffed toys and dolls to be characters from the Thomas series. We are not allowed to call the toys & dolls by their "real" names. These are her new best buds and she becomes very creative with cooking for them and taking them to the train station and all sorts of things!


Reading with her friends.