You'd think that we were the type of parents to just sit our child in front of the TV all day......but Arianna is head over heels in LOVE with Elmo.
It all started just a few weeks ago when she went to CA to visit 'mamaw'. My mother-in-law bought Ari a Elmo swivel chair which now sits in our living room. You press his hand and he 'talks' to you. Arianna looks very cute in it - she sits in it 'reading' books often.
Then the fall line up for our PBS station changed and now sesame street was on during breakfast. Arianna eats better when she's distracted so we frequently feed her while she watches tv - but she doesn't watch a lot of TV, mainly during meals.
I opened Pandora's box.
I got her an animated elmo christmas stocking to replace her 'baby's first christmas' one from last year. Its very 'top heavy' and she nearly knocks herself out swinging it around so we keep it on the table and she screams for it often. Last week I went to the library and got an elmo DVD. I wanted to see if she would like it and it would be a christmas gift... Now she can't even pass the cabinet with the dvd player without jumping out of my arms screaming 'MELMO!!!' The worst part is that if we don't put it on she will throw a tantrum and start crying! HUH? What have we done to our poor sweet princess? Elmo has turned her into... something we're not used to!
Shawn told me that this morning she was in her bedroom with the nanny when the elmo segment of sesame street came on. Now her bedroom is on the other end of the house and the TV is anything BUT loud... she started SCREECHING and RUNNING (yes, running!!) to the TV screaming 'MELMO!!!'
Do they have detox for toddlers hooked on Elmo? Seriously. I just want to go one day without her watching it. I miss the baby einstein days!
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it lasts forever! lol. Nate has loved Elmo since before he was 2 and he is still one of his favorite things! lol
seriously, look at his room:
http://www.n8andnoah.com/Nathans%20Room/Nate%27sRoom2.html
but there are worse things than sesame street, he has known his alphabet since BEFORE he was 2 also and knew all of the phonics for them as well and is learning to read now at age 3! lol
heh-heh....it's a fast, slippery slope from here.
daniel was a freak for elmo too as was his four sisters before him. me, i was always an ernie kind of girl.
Ugh! Seriously?
Ya... there are worse things, like Barney! ha!
See, they didn't have elmo when I was watching sesame street so I guess I don't get the attraction...
but where has big bird and bert and ernie gone? Cookie Monster only shows up everyone once in a while too... what's with that?
We're actually using our christmas money to buy her some sets of the early sesame street episodes so she can watch what we watched... remember monsterpiece theater with alistair cookie? They took it off because he 'smoked' a pipe during it and some parents group threw a fit... well, I don't smoke and I think that era is a bit more rounded so we'll see if she likes them too!
Aidan LOVES LOVES LOVES Elmo! And he has for nearly a year I think? Sesame Street was the only programming I ever let him see, and he loved it right away. At least Sesame Street teaches them a thing or two! :-)
haha! There is something special about that red furry monster!
Just wanted to thank you for the Christmas card! Sooo cute! Happy Holidays!
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