It's been a year since
our last post on Ethan's television preferences. It's a very dynamic situation. We stick to educational stuff even though we turned out OK watching
Tom & Jerry. We're transitioning off from
Curious George and on to a regimen of hidden English lessons.
Word World (originally tipped to us by Uncle Carl) has recently come into the rotation. Everything is actually drawn with the letters of the word.
Super Why has superheroes that fix stories that have gone bad by putting in the correct words.
Word Girl hammers you over and over with a few words throughout the episode and then reviews them at the end showing the clips from the show that demonstrate the word.
There's still some fluff...
Dragon Tales also was hot for a while. Now
Lazytown (which Ethan used to make me turn off when he was younger) is now a big hit despite the weird plastic puppets. He either secretly likes the catchy disco songs or has a crush on the girl. Some of the things he picks up come at us out of left field. For instance, one day Ethan was doing big weird jumps around the living room and said, "Look, I did a
Grand jeté! Turns out he'd learned it from an episode of
Toot & Puddle where these young pigs are always gallivanting around the world by plane (must be independently wealthy yet choose to live in a country cottage).
SpongeBob SquarePants is still blacklisted though we hear about it now and then because it was always on when we channel surfed in our minivan during our free year of
Sirius Backseat TV.
Liz had a chaotic and painful day today at Stroller Strides. She was running on some grass during their morning routine when she rolled her ankle in a hole masked in grass. The heard a good "crunch" and so she stayed put while another mom took Anneliese and a concerned Ethan on the rest of the trip while six lifeguards attended. Julie brought Liz' car to take the kids to Gigi's while Liz then drove herself to urgent care. However, our usual urgent was shut down because some idiot near the DMV had driven into a power transformer and the block had no electricity. So, Liz had to go down the road to go to one that of course wasn't in our network and was going to cost more. She was finally seen more than two hours after arriving and kicked out with a nebulous diagnosis and a shiny pair of crutches. Her whole ankle and foot turned a nice shade of purple and was very swollen. This was a real bummer occurring two days before our trip to Denver, Colorado.
