When the kids were in their midget-y phase, they used to watch this animated BBC show about a train called Chuggington, and all his trainyard friends.<\/p>\n
In the particular version of the series my kids watched, the in-charge trains would give the new trains a bunch of tasks they had to complete by the end of the show…or DIE!!! Ha, ha, ha.\u00a0 The BBC would never put on a show where trains died.\u00a0 That’s dumb.\u00a0 But what ISN\u2019T dumb is a show where there are trains-in-training who have to get badges for every successfully accomplished training task.\u00a0 (For the record, there were some close calls. Think crumbling suspension bridges and so forth; all very thrilling for midget-y folks.)\u00a0 Once the trains-in-training earned enough badges they were called \u2018scouts\u2019 and turned into\u00a0real boys and girls.<\/p>\n
No, stop. Who knows what was really going on there.\u00a0 What I mostly wanted to say about the show is that at the beginning and end of each episode, all the trains would get together and shout, “BAD PLAN, CHUGGINGTON!” Yes, that did seem odd.<\/em><\/p>\n Eventually, we realized they were yelling “BADGE QUEST, CHUGGINGTON!!!” Oh. That makes more sense.\u00a0 But that’s what happens when a bunch of creepy, rolly-eyed trains shout together in unison about their Badge Quests.\u00a0 It sounds like a Bad Plan.\u00a0 Chuggington.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n So in our house, from there on in, anything that was clearly a bad idea from the get-go, receives a “Bad Plan, Chuggington,” verdict.<\/p>\n Sissy in IKEA jumping on a bouncy toy for the 2-and-under set that she shouldn\u2019t have been\u00a0jumping on because she\u2019s…not 2-and-under? Hits it wrong and goes flying backward, lands on her rump, then proceeds to completely open-mouth wail\u00a0in pain as she’s sprawled on the ground.<\/p>\n Yep. Bad plan, Chuggington.<\/p>\n Hubby carrying a metal bedframe, upright, into a bedroom where the ceiling fan is whirling? Strikes the ceiling fan like some accidental He Man, I have the POWER and shears off a blade-and-a-half from the fan which resulted\u00a0in a fun, unexpected\u00a0fan repair project (in addition to the bed repair project already underway).<\/p>\n Uh-huh. You got it.\u00a0 Bad plan, Chuggington.<\/p>\n And just yesterday, I dropped Hubby and Sonny off at\u00a0church for a pre-mass obligation of Sonny\u2019s. I ran a quick errand then came back to find Sonny with one leg completely bloody from knee to ankle.<\/p>\n Hmmmm.<\/p>\n Turns out he quickly finished the thing he had to do, so while they waited for me out in front of church, Hubby chatted on his phone while Sonny did parkour all over the cement steps, planters, ramps etc. One step was a “bit higher” than Sonny expected and his foot got caught as he was leaping like a gazelle.\u00a0 This resulted in an unexpected slam to the ground and subsequent\u00a0three-foot skid borne almost completely by his right tibia.\u00a0 Right before church.\u00a0 Right in front of church.\u00a0 Road rash much?<\/p>\n And indeed, you guessed it. Bad plan, Chuggington!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" When the kids were in their midget-y phase, they used to watch this animated BBC show about a train called Chuggington, and all his trainyard friends. In the particular version of the series my kids watched, the in-charge trains would give the new trains a bunch of tasks they had to complete by the end […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4331"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4331"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4336,"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4331\/revisions\/4336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}