I’m being stalked by an inanimate object, y’all.
The stalker’s name? Thomas the Tank Engine.
This little blue engine has it out for me. I just know it.
Joshua? Loves Thomas. Loves, I tell you. He screams for Thomas in the bathtub. He tries to sneak him into the crib. We cannot leave the house without this train. The little metal train goes everywhere he does.
If that were the jist of this stalking, I’d be A-okay. But no. It’s worse than that.
Thomas has infiltrated my television.
The toddler asks to watch Thomas. And I oblige because in the grand scheme of things? Thomas isn’t so bad. He’s certainly no Wow Wow Wubbzy or Max and Ruby.
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Do you know how many different Thomas movies there are? 2903849202034 give or take a few dozen. And? They are all streamed via Netflix directly into my house. And that’s where the problem comes in.
Joshua says “WAH THO-MA!” so I turn on the train. Five minutes in, the toddler is whining “No Thoma.” But he doesn’t mean “Hey, Mom. I’m totally over this train. Let’s move on to something better. Like whatever YOU want to watch.”
No.
“No Thoma” is code for “FIGURE OUT WHICH OF THESE MILLION THOMAS VIDEOS I WANT TO WATCH OR I WILL STAB YOU IN THE EARS WITH MY LETHAL TODDLER CRIES! AND I’LL JUST GO AHEAD AND WARN YOU I PROBABLY WANT TO WATCH THE ONE WITH THE REALLY OBSCURE TRAIN NAMED SKARLOEY WHO IS NOT NEARLY AS IMPORTANT AS THOMAS BUT FIND HIM NOW.”
So I change the Thomas video. And he’s all “THO-MA!” ::HAPPYFACE::
Until 5 minutes later when he’s all “no, No, NO THOMA!” ::SADFACE::
I wonder what the headlines are going to say when this train finally breaks me.
LOL! I feel your pain! My son is 4 and thankfully, he has moved out of Thomas-stalking. I love your interpretation of your son’s demand.
That’s exactly what it’s like and he’s a ticking time-bomb that can only be diffused by finding the right Thomas episode right this second.
Bloody Thomas and bloody television. My son watched a variety of Elmo’s World, Baby Einstein and Blue’s Clues. And everyday he likes different ones. I just don’t know which ones. He’ll be happy for 2 minutes then shake his head and hands me the remote control, and I have to find one for him that he’ll be happy with for the next few minutes. Thankfully, we limit TV time. Or I’ll be hitting myself on the head with the remote control.
The TV is almost always on in our house. When he was an infant, it was my background noise so I didn’t go completely insane. He doesn’t always watch it, though. Right now, it’s on, but he hasn’t paid attention to it in at least 20 minutes.
But yes, the “guess what I want to watch now” makes me crazy.
We have that same problem with Word World in this house. I totally feel your pain.
I have heard that people have this problem with Word World. Thus? We do not watch Word World.
Yo Gabba is the death of me. For realz.
See and I? Love Gabba. Love. I’d rather watch that skinny DJ Lance Rock than Thomas.
we’re not really into thomas at our house…THANK GOD! we have one or two thomas books. one is super boring and i imagine that’s what the show is like. the other plays music and that makes the kids happy so, whatever.
Haven’t dared to introduce DD to Thomas yet. We’re doing just fine with Paddington Bear, Maisy and Bod at the moment and I for one am not rocking the boat. Am expecting all this to end when we get back home and children’s TV is in ENGLISH. Eeekk!!
Do we live in the same house? Gabe is obsessed. We’re currently on the hunt for a Thomas stuffed animal because he insists on taking his rubber Thomas bath toy AND a Thomas book to bed with him. Its ridiculous.
eddie is obsessed with different things on different days. he will want the tivo on and we have to go through EVERYTHING in there…but he can’t say what he wants…at least not in words i understand.
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HAHA I’m laughing WITH you, mind.
You are laughing right?
I am living this hell too… only it’s now Diego. “NO NOT THAT ONE…THE ONE WITH THE BABY JAGUAR!!”
yeah – they ALL have a baby frickin jaguar.
Good luck
B has not yet discovered Thomas; I fear the day. Right now he still likes Gabba and Cat in the Hat.
Maybe this episode list will help?
http://ttte.wikia.com/wiki/Skarloey