Wandering Along the Path: Right Speech

Our grandson is turning four soon, and I've just purchased tickets to a Thomas the train Halloween party.  The boy is crazy about Thomas, and clearly there is some magic ingredient I can't understand.  Maybe because I'm a female.  With three little grandsons I have found myself reading about, visiting and riding trains a lot, and actually, I remember our granddaughter loving riding the real ones.  We took a train to visit my friend and stayed a couple of nights and another time her mother, she and I visited another city.  She's seen the train museum by us several times, too.  So it's definitely a thing, and much more positive than a lot of franchises aimed at children.  What I feel is change.  His turning four means this may be the end of the train era.  Other passions will pop up soon, and he will want to do more things the other kids do.  It's natural, but he's not a little, little boy any longer.  The ride he's going on is going to take him far away, and we'll be waving at the station.