Bots

John has really been enjoying introducing Alex to the wonderful world of Transformers.  Ever since he went to see the movie, he's brought home toy after toy, some even for Alex.  The other day John bought a couple of mini transformers for himself (designed for three year olds) and showed them to Alex.  Well, Alex fell in love with Bumblebee and refused to give him back to John.  When Bumblebee is laying rejected on the floor, John will sneak over and snatch him up, only to have Alex, clearly with some kind of Transformer-stealing radar, drop whatever he's doing and come running into the room screaming "BOTS!" (Alexese for Robot) and stick his gimmie hand at John to hand over the goods. Today John came home with six new bots just for Alex.  Same style as the Bumblebee bot, but different ones.  So far it's been a successful trade-off, six new bots for the one, now beat up, Bumblebee bot.

In other Transformer news, Alex also now owns a stuffed Bumblebee transformer that actually transforms from car to bot.  It starts as the bot, like a little yellow stuffed robot doll, then it opens up in the back and you pull out a pouch that looks like a yellow VW bug and stuff the robot doll into it, effectively transforming it into the car.  This is hours of fun for Alex.  He'll hand you the bot and demand "CAHS!" (Car) and as you're transforming it, he'll do the "cha cha choo" thing (the sound Transformers make when they transform) until it's a car.  You give it back to him and he'll hand it right back and demand "BOT!", again with the noises until it's a bot again.  This goes on and on and on and on...all day long.