Oh, and...

Have I mentioned how stinking cute he is? This was in the car on the way to gymnastics. He's wearing his "Wawee" (Wall-E) sunglasses and has his "boo boddle" (blue bottle of water) in his lap. He was totally mugging for the camera.

Trains

Corin is slowly taking over Ryanne's die-cast train collection. As you can imagine, this is causing some hardship in our house. :) Ryanne hasn't noticed most of the individual trains disappearing as I really think she can't remember which ones are hers and which aren't. She notices the big things, though, like the nice carrying case she got one Christmas. We've doubled up on a few important ones - like Gordon and Thomas.

Corin, however, is amassing a rather impressive set of track and buildings/cases for them. He's got the Roundhouse, the Quarry, the train wash and the coal mine. They each came with a few pieces of the plastic track and will close up and hold a few trains with the track. I think they're part of the Take Alongs series. I managed to find quite a few of them at the resale store and bulk up the collection.

He lines up them on the floor, the edge of the table, the edge of the box spring on our bed. It reminds me of a story Grandma G tells about Chrys and his cars on the babysitter's 'seamless' carpet. :)

He loves to drive them around. He sits and hollers "chugga chugga chooo". He knows the names of Thomas, Percy and Gordon. He's not bad with Duncan and Oliver. I think those are all of the engines we have right now.

Grandma G and I may have an outlet for those Lionel cars in a few years. We'll see if the fascination lasts. I suppose he is somewhat genetically wired to love them, though.