Callum White - Tomb Raider Extraodinaire

So it's a brand New Year. Happy New Year everyone! I am in the middle (well I have been composing the post since last week) of doing a Looking Back at 2008 post but I need to transfer some photos over from the laptop to the computer. In the meantime I had to mention this. For Christmas Darren and Callum bought me (that's Sarah, Callum's Mummy) the new Tomb Raider game. Now Callum has never really seen the awesomeness of these games before so it was like seeing it through a newcomer's eyes. So what have Darren (Daz) and I been subjected to?

Well firstly there was Callum pretending to be like Lara Croft earlier today. I was in the kitchen fixing him his dinner while Daz was sorting out something for us to watch on dvd that evening. We both walked into the hallway at pretty much the same time to find Callum bouncing back and forth between the hallway wall, the radiator and the outside of the staircase a la Lara Croft. See... PHOTOS!!!






Not content with the climbing he then embarks upon making a map to which only Daz is lucky enough to view and join in on the adventure. After a while we are allowed to persuade our intrepid Tomb Raider, Questor of fine Arts, Explorer to rest while we watch a film (Transformers). But alas half way through the film he decides he needs to pack his trusty back-pack. What does the modern day (boy) Tomb Raider need? Well now that he is asleep I can tell you, having rumaged through the back-pack.

OK in order from back to front:

The Big Book of Top Gear
Corgi Toys
Transformers Spotlight Revelation Part Two Cover A
JETIX magazine talking about Batman Lego
The Official Highway Code (which is his own book that he has had for about a year and knows most of the signs to)
Transformers Beast Wars #1
A clear pocket packet containing Transformers Spotlight:Blaster, Tiny Titans #7 and Transformers Best of UK)
World War Hulk After Smash
The New Avengers Transformers tpb
Mr Snow (Mr Men book)
Top Gear The Challenges Best Bits
A wind-up watch
Pair of grey school socks
A clean doggy poop bag containing pencils and a paint brush


Not that I ever need reminding why I love that little monkey monster but this is one of those moments that make me realise just how much and why.

Robots in Disguise

Yep Transformers has hit the White House.

True to Callum form the release of the new Transformers movie has him with a new love although one that still encompasses his one true love of cars! The last few weeks Callum has been asking about us taking him to see the movie at the cinema but luckily Daz had some episodes on DVD which Callum has been lapping up, so we may not have a disappointed little boy when we don't take him. Also (as Daz and I... well mostly Daz, are such geeks) we have some Transformers comics. Most mornings Callum will come into our bedroom and bombard Daz with questions about the Transformers, such as "What is the yellow one called Daddy?" (by the way it's Bumblebee and Callum knows this full well, he just likes to ask Daz.) "What's the digger called Daddy?" (I have no idea the answer to this!) and so on and points them out in the comic he has chosen to bring in.

With all this and the cost of the actual toy Transformers costing so much that we haven't bought him any Callum has resorted to the next best thing. We have this huge toy bucket that is full to overflowing with Callum's small toy cars/vehicles. The last few days Callum has been going through this bucket and finding the vehicles that match up with the Transformers, mostly the Autobots, I've yet to hear him name any Decpeticons, and give them the right name. The red lorry he has is Optimus Prime, the green jeep he has is Hound and the yellow beetle car is Bumblebee. He then lines them all up in a row and makes the Transforming noises and pretends that they have transformed. It's so cute and adorable and each one has it's own different voice. Also along with the transforming noises Callum also sings part of the Transformers song. He makes up his own little battle scenes with them and "the other cars" and little stories. I shouldn't be surprised but I'm amazed at how much he has taken the Transformers to his little heart.

Hopefully he won't have outgrown them in a couple weeks as I've asked someone to get him the Transformers Dress Up costume for his birthday. Now that's going to bring on a whole new level of fun and stories.