Kalib comes out to visit: "I'll do what I want to, not what I'm told!" And then there was trouble!

I drove into town to pick Margie up and then Kalib decided he wanted to come back with us, hang out at his grandparents and play with trains - as if there are no trains to play with at his own house! We were glad to have him come. As he played with trains, Thomas the Train played with his friends on "On Demand" TV. One of of Thomas's friends is named Percy. Percy is green and he is kind of a little guy. Another friend is named Gordon. He is painted much like Thomas and is the biggest and strongest steam engine of them all. In one episode, which we have seen maybe 5000 times, he rolls down the track shouting, "Out of my way! Express coming through!"

Poor Percy. He wants to be like Gordon. So he gives it a try. "Out of my my way!" he shouts, "Mail coming through!"

Amazingly, other trains do get out of his way. Percy likes this, so he shouts out, "I'll do what I want to, not what I'm told!"

Pretty soon, this leads to my favorite line that can be heard in all or almost all Thomas episodes:

"And then there was trouble!"

I won't tell you what happens next, just in case you haven't seen it. I don't want to be a spoiler. But there sure was trouble, alright.

As for Kalib, he has been no trouble at all.

What a delight it is, to have him here!

BTW: That's Gordon, #4, who Kalib pushes down the table as Gordon watches from the TV.

There will still be talking horses, Metro studies, blowing snow, school buses and here is Kalib, playing with a train

Just to clarify, in case anyone else got this idea from my "flaming strategic retreat" post last light, Mrs. Gunka left this comment today:

"Oh dear, no studies from the drive up window at Metro, breakfast at Abby's, school buses, the talking horses, boys in the window and trains on the floor. Margie with her babies, birthday cakes and candles, moose in the meadow and dogs on the road, snow blowing across the road, ravens and planes in the sky, It would be losing my family in the far north. Whale stories! Trips to AZ! Morning coffee without the boys. Mr Shadow! Oh, dear!"

Be assurred, Mrs. Gunka, there will be still be Metro drive-through studies, breakfast at Abby's, school buses, talking horses, etc., and of course little boys playing with trains for as long as there are little boys in this family who play with trains.

There will be less of it, though. Like today, Jacob and Lavina brought Lynx out to spend the night so that I would not have to drive Margie into town in the morning but can wait until night when I must drive in to catch my plane to Utah.

Certainly, I could have turned this visit into a 10 or 12 picture post, but instead it is a one picture post. Sooner or later, an event will seem important enough or I will feel so far caught up and ahead of the game that I will still still turn such a visit into a 10 or 12 picture post. Plus, I took some pictures on my walk, including one of an airplane I quite like, but in the interest of time and applying the discipline needed to scale back, I ignored those pictures altogether.

Still, airplanes will continue to appear on this blog. When we go to Hawaii, for Rex and Cortney's wedding, I am certain I will do a full-blown picture story, just like old times.

Then one day, I will master it all. I will have all the funds I need. Then I can make this blog what I want it to be.

Such is the dream.

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