This is not even funny!

The railroad has expanded with fancy Thomas the Tank Engine parts, like the station house with stalls for the trains, the stationmaster and the train wash.

To say that I'm not encouraged to play with it, is the understatement of the day.Dad on the other hand plays happily... Him and mom are embarrassingly pleased with themselves for their construction, although annoyed about the Thomas trains being somewhat bigger than the Brio ones, thereby not passing freely under the bridges.

To conciliate my hurt feelings, they have purchased a baby verions of Thomas the Tank Engine (not to be driven on the tracks), which can be taken apart with a plastic screwdriver. The downside is that dad seems to like that toy as well.

I may just have to make do with pots and pans from the kitchen and some good old-fashioned imagination!