15 August 2008

Signs your kid watches too much TV

10. Her first song she learns to sing is her version of a lullaby from JoJo's Circus ("Close your head, No peep, No baby, Go sleep").
9. One of her first two-word phrases is "Oh Man!" (it's what Swiper says in Dora)
8. She can easily count backwards 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 (always followed by "Blast Off" from Little Einsteins) almost better than she can count forward.
7. She breaks into the "Mailtime" song from Blue's Clues whenever you get the mail.
6. She'll only let you put pigtails in your hair if you remind her that "Boo" from Monsters, Inc. has them too.
5. She starts dancing to "Mickey House" (Mickey Mouse Clubhouse) whenever she sees a Huggies diaper with Mickey on it.
4. She can sing the "Ah-ah-ah" song from the Little Mermaid pretty impressively.
3. She randomly starts counting in Spanish without you ever having taught her the word cinco or ocho (Dora).
2. One of her longest phrases she can say is "No touch da boat, Nemo!"
1. She knows who Randall, June, Periwinkle, Isa, and Dinky are (all obscure characters on her favorite shows. Can anyone name which shows they're all from?).


(This is all about Avery, by the way... guess we need to go to the park more.)

5 comments:

Britney said...

Vanessa, this is hilarious! Although, maybe you should retitle the post "10 signs your child watches too much TV AND is a child genius". What a cute smarty she is, like her mom, of course. :)

Dayna said...

my nieces are the same way with dora! you have to talk to them in the excited dora voice or else you won't get a response out of them! It is hilarious (and partly upsetting when you really need them to listen!)

Good luck with that! I still think that they are adorable!

DAYNA

Kate said...

your girls are adorable. and there is nothing wrong with knowing a little spanish, even if it did come from Dora.
And last of all, I love the picture on your heading!

Paul and Rebecca Jones said...

That is too funny. My kid watches a lot of TV too -- at least it's educational right? Sometimes I feel guilty, but then I think, motherhood is all about survival!

Tyler V said...

You know, between this post and the Negligent Mother post, I think you should...realize you are normal! As housewife said, it's all about survival...and with 2 kids (one a little baby) survival can be tricky!