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| boys and trains | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Mar 18 2012, 01:14 PM (343 Views) | |
| jon-nyc | Mar 18 2012, 01:14 PM Post #1 |
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Cheers
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My little boy on the subway platform. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPc6TxoT68U |
| In my defense, I was left unsupervised. | |
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| Mikhailoh | Mar 18 2012, 01:20 PM Post #2 |
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If you want trouble, find yourself a redhead
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Very cute. And curious! |
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Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead - Lucille Ball | |
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| Mikhailoh | Mar 18 2012, 01:20 PM Post #3 |
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If you want trouble, find yourself a redhead
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Very cute. And curious! |
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Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead - Lucille Ball | |
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| ivorythumper | Mar 18 2012, 01:29 PM Post #4 |
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I am so adjective that I verb nouns!
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Love the blue shoes! Is he in the stage of calling all big moving machines "trucks"? (I couldn't quite hear what he was saying at the end). |
| The dogma lives loudly within me. | |
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| Axtremus | Mar 18 2012, 01:31 PM Post #5 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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Nice!
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| PattyP | Mar 18 2012, 01:35 PM Post #6 |
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Senior Carp
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"Isn't that cool?... See the tracks? Those are train tracks." What a doll! |
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A tired dog is a good dog. "Dogs' lives are too short...their only fault, really." A.S. Turnbull | |
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| Horace | Mar 18 2012, 02:01 PM Post #7 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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That's awesome. |
| As a good person, I implore you to do as I, a good person, do. Be good. Do NOT be bad. If you see bad, end bad. End it in yourself, and end it in others. By any means necessary, the good must conquer the bad. Good people know this. Do you know this? Are you good? | |
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| jon-nyc | Mar 18 2012, 02:56 PM Post #8 |
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Cheers
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He was saying 'tracks' and pointing to the subway tracks. The funny thing is he used to take the subway all the time. Since I got the car he's only been on it once or twice. So now its very exciting. |
| In my defense, I was left unsupervised. | |
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| Axtremus | Mar 18 2012, 02:57 PM Post #9 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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Was he similarly excited when you got a new car?
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| ivorythumper | Mar 18 2012, 02:57 PM Post #10 |
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I am so adjective that I verb nouns!
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It's wonderful seeing life through young eyes. |
| The dogma lives loudly within me. | |
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| jon-nyc | Mar 18 2012, 02:59 PM Post #11 |
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Cheers
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No, he got excited about individual trips, but I think it took him a while to realize that we had 'our own' car. Keep in mind its not like it sits in a garage attached to our house. |
| In my defense, I was left unsupervised. | |
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| sue | Mar 18 2012, 03:33 PM Post #12 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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That made my day. Little boys and trains; it's timeless. My son did the exact same things, the jumping, the flapping arms, pointing out the tracks.....such wonderful memories. I used to time our trips to town so we'd catch the Royal Hudson (steam train!) go by. Had to keep a distance, that thing was pretty loud and a bit scary, but oh boy it was exciting. I had this little guy in the library the other day who came marching up to the circ desk, climbs up on the stool we have there for short people, looks at me with a very serious face and huge huge eyes, and says "Where's the train?" Don't no where he got the idea, but clearly there should have been a train going through the library. Would be cool, actually. It's an old 1920's building, originally used for the local steamship company; would be awesome to have a model train running around up by the rafters.
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| Aqua Letifer | Mar 18 2012, 03:58 PM Post #13 |
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ZOOOOOM!
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Very cool indeed!
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| I cite irreconcilable differences. | |
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| John D'Oh | Mar 18 2012, 04:06 PM Post #14 |
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MAMIL
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I loved that. We took our son to Edaville, which is a train museum, when he was about 3. He absolutely flipped out with excitement when he saw them - it's one of my happiest memories remembering him running towards the steam trains with his arms flapping about. |
| What do you mean "we", have you got a mouse in your pocket? | |
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| blondie | Mar 18 2012, 04:25 PM Post #15 |
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Bull-Carp
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That brings back good memories Jon. Thanks. He has the same blonde hair our little fellow had. 'Hope yours stays so blonde. |
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| brenda | Mar 18 2012, 05:03 PM Post #16 |
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What a sweetheart you have there, Jon. It's so fun to see them get excited as they learn and explore. Thanks for sharing. I love this stuff.
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| jon-nyc | Mar 18 2012, 05:24 PM Post #17 |
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Cheers
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The best thing about having kids, I'd say. |
| In my defense, I was left unsupervised. | |
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| jon-nyc | Mar 18 2012, 05:26 PM Post #18 |
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Cheers
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Oh, and thanks for the kind words, everyone. It's nice to see that pure toddler joy makes pretty much everyone smile. |
| In my defense, I was left unsupervised. | |
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| LWpianistin | Mar 18 2012, 06:27 PM Post #19 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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So sweet And, it's not just boys that like trains. One of my favorite things was going with my family to put pennies on the track and watch the train run over them.
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| Aqua Letifer | Mar 18 2012, 06:29 PM Post #20 |
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ZOOOOOM!
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I loved trains as a kid, too! My favorite activity was to borrow my dad's jumper cables and clamp the two rails together near railroad crossings. Ding ding, ding ding! The gates would come down and stay down all day, you could see the line of cars for almost a mile!
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| LWpianistin | Mar 18 2012, 06:35 PM Post #21 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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I am very glad I didn't live around your area, you trickster, you.
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| RosemaryTwo | Mar 19 2012, 04:54 AM Post #22 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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What a great video!! My 11-year-old got a VISA gift card recently. I spent the better part of a Saturday afternoon in two train stores helping him pick out the prefect train car to go on his HO scale train set that is set up in his room. Before he goes to bed at night I can hear the thing humming. He has built buildings all around the tracks. The train interest stays in some boys for decades. Amazing. Edited by RosemaryTwo, Mar 19 2012, 04:56 AM.
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| "Perhaps the thing to do is just to let stupid run its course." Aqua | |
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| RosemaryTwo | Mar 19 2012, 04:58 AM Post #23 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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I took him to a see a model train display last month at our local botanical conservatory. He was thrilled. He wanted to borrow my iPhone and put it on the back of the caboose, so he could video tape the view from the moving train. Cool idea, but no. |
| "Perhaps the thing to do is just to let stupid run its course." Aqua | |
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| Mikhailoh | Mar 19 2012, 05:12 AM Post #24 |
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If you want trouble, find yourself a redhead
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Kindred spirits are we. |
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Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead - Lucille Ball | |
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It's so fun to see them get excited as they learn and explore. Thanks for sharing. I love this stuff.

4:53 PM Jul 10