the newest addition to our family



Meet the new addition to our family! Yep, it's Diesel 10.

 

Diesel 10 came into our lives on Friday. He is the result of an incentive [ok, bribe] to get our son to use the potty.

 

For those of you who haven't watched "Day of the Diesels" 10,000 times, Diesel 10 is one of several diesel engines on the Thomas the Train series. The diesel engines are dirty, mysterious, and generally frightening to steam engines such as Thomas and Percy, and also to young viewers such as my son. Diesel 10 is equipped with a sinister-looking claw for grabbing things, making him the scariest diesel of all.

 

But apparently that does not make him unlovable. My son talks about him with a mix of fear and admiration. Soon after we told him about the bribe, er, incentive, he decided that he was going to get Diesel 10. Still, I thought that once we got to the store and saw Thomas, Percy, and the other steamies, he'd change his mind.

 

At the store, my son carefully deliberated between several engines, including Thomas, and then confidently selected Diesel 10 as his reward for beginning his potty training.  "Maybe we can get Thomas next time," he told me. And he hasn't looked back.

 



 

 

 

 

 



Diesel 10 came with a photo list of all the other engines that are available for purchase, which has provided us with hours of study, not so much "I want that and that and that" (although there is some, of course), but mostly just learning the names of every Thomas character known to man.

If Thomas the Train can potty train my son, I'm fine with reading the names of all the engines for the 100th time.