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DS (almost 3) still only likes trains. Started when he was 9 months and saw his first episode of Thomas. His grandmother bought him an engine and he has pretty much had at least one in his hand at all times since that moment.
I guess on the bright side... he knows an awful lot about trains for a two year old. He learned all of his colour and numbers from watching Thomas on TV. He can name every single engine on the Thomas website (I think there are 90). He has us take him on 'stake outs' of the train tracks in our area so he can see real trains. He likes to video tape them and then have us post them on You Tube (and no, I'm not kidding) and then he likes to watch thousands of videos about trains at crossings.
His only gadgets are skads of toy trains, tracks and accesories. He has a train table and spends 90% of his waking time playing with it. He really likes to act out stories from his books or episodes that he watches.
Almost seems a little obsessive to me. Personally, I'm damn sick of the trains! wow that is a REAL obsession indeed! Does he enjoy travelling on trains too? 
Mom to 3 gorgeous boys: Aiden (8), Nathan (7) and Dylan (4)
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DS1 (3 y/o) walked up to the child care providers at the YMCA and said, and I quote, "I'm interested in vehicles. Where are your vehicle toys?"
He can identify far more cars by sight than I can, and has now moved on to train engines. In Oregon, where we live, we have an annual "Steam Up" event where people come from miles around to show off their tractors and many steam-powered engines. If your state has an event like this, I recommend it. The last one we went to had some steam-powered grain grinders working. Very interesting to watch the gears, etc. And...there's a miniature steam-engine train that you can ride.
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DS5 loves comics, but they're all ones I gave to him, so I wouldn't say he's collecting them. But he does collect trash, for use in projects. Right now he's collecting empty small Gatorade bottles, for use in creating a model of a floating city. Has he seen the movie, Water World? I know it's probably too violent in it's entirety, but parts of it would be interesting to him.
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wow that is a REAL obsession indeed! Does he enjoy travelling on trains too? Sadly, he is really quite afraid of trains in real life. He had a panic attack when his dad tried to video tape a train from outside the car a while back. It was then that he told us that he is 'too scairt' of trains. LOL! I guess he will just love them from afar for a while. We want to take him on a train trip this summer, but I think we will visit the train station first to see what his reaction will be like first.
Tomorrow is always fresh, with no mistakes in it. — L.M. Montgomery
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DD2.9's current obsession is location. She is constantly asking where is such and such as trying to make a map in her head or something. She is starting to be able to orientate herself from one position. So if she asks where such and such is and I tell her she can then point the direction of her other favorite points on this "map". As you can tell I am not even clear on this. I do know that her father is incredible with location. Its like he walks in a 3-d map world all the time. He can travel in a foreign city and five years later return to that same foreign city and find the local diner on some obscure road with out a name. I think I find my way around by feeling.
She has goes in and out of obsessions with letters and numbers. She can dial my cell phone number or her father's cell phone number. Today she told me the ten code number for the checkout at the grocery store. I guess I better keep my credit cards away from her!
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Love this thread!! Amber- go for the drums!! I'm married to a drummer  fun people, percussionists! Current obsessions of Mr. Nick- propellers and rudders and ships and torpedo launchers...etc...cooking, music, snails. He went through the human body phase too- would fall and say, "Ouch- I hurt my patella!" LOL... how do you attach photos? I've got a great drumming one..
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Amber- go for the drums!! I'm married to a drummer fun people, percussionists! I'm married to a drummer, as well. Definitely fun!
Tomorrow is always fresh, with no mistakes in it. — L.M. Montgomery
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I was thinking "DS doesn't really obsess that much..." and hadn't posted...
But then today, he hit a 4 year old because he wasn't playing "backhoe" properly (he was moving his elbow wrong). And that WAS after spending 3 hours waiting for the dump-truck. And getting mad at me for confusing a bullet train with some other high-speed train. And insisting that we take the streetcar rather than the bus, and that he be allowed to see the driver, and that we explain to him why the stops on the streetcar only partially match the subway. And an extensive discussion of the propulsion mechanisms on tug-boats. And a melt-down over Lee Valley Tools'inadequate train set, and half an hour spent examining the mechanisms on the toy tractor at Lee Valley, and that *was* all in one day... and I am quite sure I've left somehtings out...
DS doesn't usually hit or anything, so I just got him to say sorry, but, perhaps I should re-evaluate, and come to terms with the fact that my son *does* have a bit of a thing about vehicles...hmmmm...
-Mich
DS1: Hon, you already finished your homework
DS2: Quit it with the protesting already!
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Love this thread!! ...
how do you attach photos? I've got a great drumming one.. Get a free account at photobucket. Copy and paste the img link.
Youth lives by personality, age lives by calculation. -- Aristotle on a calendar
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He actually seems passionate about other people and what they're doing, come to think of it. �(aka pestering). � I was just talking to a great aunt. �When I said, "there's parenting forum I love and everybody was talking about 'what's your pre-schoolers passion?' and I just turned red because instead of trains or dinosaurs i had to say "my kid's passion is what everybody else is doing AND what they should be doing", (ahem, rhymes with "nosy" & "bossy"). �She told me, It all depends on your vocabulary because that's "curiosity and leadership."
Youth lives by personality, age lives by calculation. -- Aristotle on a calendar
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