Lately when Daddy lets Mama sleep in on a weekend morning, and one of our littles wakes up early, he sometimes turns on a little Saturday morning cartoons to keep the early bird quiet. I don't really say much about it most of the time, because- well, we make compromises in this thing called parenting and I do still get to sleep in. :)
Then I got an ipad for my birthday this fall... and I discovered some pretty awesome apps for kids, right up Sam and Anna's alley. Sam's favorite is I Hear Ewe and Anna's is Magic Piano. Sometimes (not every day) I will let Sam and Anna do something supervised on my ipad while Daddy is finishing up making dinner (our often fussiest time of day). They love it. I am amazed at how quickly they both learned how to finger swipe and touch the screen, not to mention turn it on. For that reason, most of the time the ipad, like our laptop, is out of sight, out of mind while Sam and Anna are awake.
And then they were not feeling well at daycare along with the other two day care kids, and they watched an Elmo movie. Then promptly fell in LOVE with Elmo. I guess most kids discover the wonderfulness of Elmo sometime in their second year, right? Elmo has been on their diapers since they were newborns, so they knew what he looked like, but didn't love him until now. I do have to say it is super cute to watch them sing and dance along to Elmo's song.
It's a slippery slope, because while we were on our Thanksgiving road trip of 10 hours total drive time, Sam and Anna may or may not have watched Elmo's World on the ipad 5 or so times. I'm not admitting how many times I let it play. What I will admit, is that it was the least painful road trip we've ever been on with our non-car nappers. Elmo over tears and tantrums made it completely worth it!
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Oh Katie, I don't know what I would do without Mickey Mouse and our car DVD player on road trips. It has saved my sanity in the car. No judgement here!
I don't let K watch TV either. But she did stare glassy-eyed at Ratatouille and Toy Story last night on the plane (a 9 hour flight), and then at the end after her 4 hour sleep, was overjoyed to watch two Backyardigans episodes. No sound though since the ear buds were too big for her ears. She's obsessed with Backyardigans though and loves to watch the theme song on youtube.
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