I pulled the little bag from behind my pillow and gave it to him.
“What is it daddy?”
“A present!”
Yoda loves presents and his eyes lit up as he bounced on the bed.
He has gone to sleep on time for 3 nights in a row and woken up dry – except perhaps for the tangy pong of his jammies next to me this morning on the bed. Indeed L had reported a stained patch on his sheets. But hey, he has been a very good boy lately.
He opened up the bag and inside was … another bag, and inside that …
“What is it? Is it … a train?”
“Yez! It’s Wosie!” He beamed.
“Rosie? oo is that nice?” I enquired nervously hoping he wasn’t disappointed with it not being Gordon.
“Yez! … Does she have a tender?”
“No. She’s too wee for a tender.” (I didn’t even know what a tender was until a month ago.)
Later I came down stairs to find him introducing the other engines to Rosie.
In TtfTE, it is usually the job of the girl engines to sit quietly in the background as if they might be relevant characters brought in later for a female market that has clearly never really emerged. Rosie sits in a siding and chats to Thomas on occasions, and this was one of those.
“Hewo Thomas. I’m Wosie!”
“Hewo Wosie I’m Thomas. I’m going to the shops to buy chocolate … PEEP! PEEP!”
etc …
And who says you can’t buy your children’s happiness?
Duncan got Hiro for being good on the journey up. Seemingly he is only in one story but he does love him. But I bought him “Lightning MacQueen” from the film Cars and that is a very very favourite. He has been to the Big Tent ecofestival today and yesterday and had a great time but got tired in the afternoon and went to bed by 6pm. I am now on babysitting duty. I was up the road till 10pm. rob has gone now for the last session an Brazilian group I think. He should be fit for tomorrow’s festival and raring to go.