This week’s Gavin’s Choice Award has definitely got to go to:
I’ve never realise just how fond Gavin was of Thomas until I noticed him gravitating towards the Thomas toys in the toy department one day. Although Gavin has watched Thomas and Friends on TV, he has never really watched the program as often as he has Mickey Mouse Clubhouse or My Friends Tigger and Pooh.
The interesting thing is that I think he likes it even more than Mickey or Pooh…
Gavin really loves the theme song:
In fact, he likes it so much that he’ll quieten down whenever I start singing it - even when he’s throwing a tantrum. The Thomas song has been really great for getting him to calm down almost instantaneously and to do a lot of things that previously, he would never have done without a fight (such as allowing me to buckle him into his carseat after a long day of shopping).
None of his other interests or toys has ever had an effect like this before - not even Baby Signing Time which I thought was already really good.
So yup, Thomas definitely gets Gavin’s vote for the Choice Awards…
That said, I wonder how long this interest in Thomas will last? My SIL2 and hubby have already warned me not to over do the Thomas song in case it loses its appeal. True, true, it’s usually my last resort, but it’s so effective, it’s hard to resist breaking out into the Thomas song. Even my SIL got hooked on the song when she was here on holiday. I caught her humming it several times in the kitchen when she was baking up a storm.
You’ve got to admit, the tune’s pretty catchy.
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And I get to buy toys indiscriminately on the pretext of getting them for Jack! lol!
Speaking of songs to calm a baby down, we’ve got this made-up Little Monkey song sung to the tune of “My Bonny lies over the ocean” where we sub the words Bonny with “Monkey”. I’ve been singing it over and over when it’s my scheduled time to talk to my bump in the hopes that he’ll catch on to the song and it will prove effective enough at soothing him later. Think it’ll work?
Oh btw… guess who’s making a trip back to Liv this Aug and can help out to buy some baby Liv stuff? *twiddles thumbs*
Hey, I remember reading something about that! There have been studies that show that babies calm down when Mum sings a song they remember hearing when they were in the womb. Just make sure you keep singing it until the end - I forget what week the ears start working.
Oh, oh! Kekeke… I think Gav’s outgrown the “You’ll Never Crawl Alone” though… :o( I seriously think that’s so cute.
i hum that song at work and get strange sideways looks from my workmates
maybe we can have a TTT n Lego party 
apparently duplo made a thomas the tank set…
Hahaha… Your new workmates don’t have kids?
Oh oh! We’ve got to get Gavin the Thomas Duplo set!!
BTW… The song has officially lost it’s appeal. I think I sang it too often during the “storms” and now he associates it with bad things
But… he still likes Thomas though, so I reckon it’s still a good theme for his party.
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