In our world trains are tractors and anything goes!!

Ok, so I got another call from a school today that one of the kiddos was sick. This time it's Ben and pink eye. God love the nurse, she was so apologetic being a working mom herself, but yes I did need to pick him up and yes he did need to stay home tomorrow. It will have to be Rob because with my major burn accident right before school started, strep throat through the family and Becca's exciting case of lice I am almost out of sick days and October isn't even over yet!!! OOOPPPSSS. 

So Ben gave Rob a major run for his money the other day crying for  "tractor" now mind you lots of things are called by the wrong name in our house but "tractor" was a new one. He does actually have one tractor but of course that was not what the poor guy wanted. Rob tried every wheeled vehicle in our house. Very similar to "Trains, Planes and Automobiles". This went one for several hours, for Rob I am sure it was several years. When I got home I went into the kitchen and from that angle I noticed a Thomas the Train engine wedged into the coffee table that I had never seen Ben play with (it actually belongs upstairs on the very dusty unused train table). I retrieved this and handed it to Ben manna from heaven!!! Rob walked away shaking his head. Ben has yet to let this "tractor" go several days later. Our newest favorite toy! I always wonder what it will be next. At least it is a toy and not a spoon or my $45 electric toothbrush.

So we usually don't correct what Ben calls things unless we feel it is necessary, we are just glad he has words. But yesterday his courageous teachers decided to change tractor to the appropriate train. It took a solid 41/2 minutes of Ben's pure stubbornness and lots of Skittles to get Ben to say "train". He knew the name just felt it was important that the toy be called tractor. I am sure he has his reason, the drum beat he walks to is different, and I can appreciate that most of the time. If only I had a ticket to his concert every once in a while!! 

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