Thomas

Some of you will really not understand the full importance of this if you don't spend time with boys under the age of about five very often. We'll forgive you.

We were driving home from swimming lessons yesterday and Jack did pretty well there, but spent a lot of the time when he wasn't directly attended by the teacher goofing off with another little boy who is in his morning summer camp class at the YMCA. This required a lot of the teacher saying, "Boys, please stay on the first step!" and "Boys, please sit on your bottoms!" etc.

I asked him, "Jack, what was that little boy's name that you were playing with during your swimming lesson?"

He takes a long pause and I glance at him in the rear view mirror and can tell he is thinking about it.

Finally he says, "Well, his name is Thomas mommy. But I found out, he is not the train. He is just has that name." He looks very dejected.

I say, "Well, it sure looked like y'all were having fun playing!"

He says, "Yeah, we had fun, but he really ISN'T the train Thomas."