I have come to like Caillou after it hasn’t been watched after a time. I have found I become too cynical if I see something over and over again during a short span of time. Ezra doesn’t seem to become cynical. I still want to tell him how I think Bob The Builder is probably thought to be a commy by some people, but I reason cynicism can wait.
He watches an episode of Bob The Builder, which will be his last of the shows he may watch today.
So far, the time with Ezra has been good. He even said he wasn’t going to be rude to me today, and that it wasn’t nice of him to be mean to me yesterday (which is probably something he reasoned after talking with -v-). And he said he liked me. We talked during the drive home. He has ate the waffels I made him from dinner, but the true test his mood and his like of me is when he is no longer entertained by the shows and wants more.
Ezra now likes Toy Story. He likes it in the way that he used to like the Cars movie. Specifically, he likes Toy Story 2, and his favorite character is Buzz. We were out shopping this weekend and Ezra spotted a Toy Story lunch box, and Toy Story thermos. I successfully shielded him from the Toy Story sandwich container, the Toy Story snack container, the Toy Story, etc. etc. These match his Toy Story t-shirt and Toy Story backpack. I’m frankly surprised he didn’t want to be someone from Toy Story for Halloween. Disney-Pixar sure is good at marketing their stuff.
Ezra’s new favorite movie is Cars. It combines some of his favorite things like cars, noises and cartoons. He likes it enough that is even subduing any fussiness he may have from not being home and for it being too cold to go to the park, and the movie even subdued him during plane flight. The only thing I don’t like about this like of the movie Cars is the fact he may want to watch it often and every time we let him watch videos, which means I have to watch it or hear it.
Today was another day of trying to find what Sesame Street segement Ezra wanted to watch. While he once loved to watch I’ve Got Two, now he can’t say, ,,No,” fast enough until I’ve Got Two is turned to another Sesame Street segement (which is too bad because it was really cute to see him mimic Susan and Bob). There is the one with Little Bird and Big Bird he liked for about two days. He didn’t like that one today. He didn’t like the segment from the first episode about milk that he use to love to watch.
In fact, he didn’t want to watch more than a few seconds of anything today except the segment about the number three, and then he only wanted to watch it once, which is fine, but it is not like he wanted to watch it once, stop and do something else. That was not the case. Instead he expected -v- to skip through the segments with him watching a few seconds before he said, ”No.” If she waited for a few seconds more before she hit the remote to show the next segment then he said, ”No, no, no, no…” until it was turned. So one would think that he didn’t want to watch anything, so we turned it off and he said, ”No, no, no, no…” and became fussy as if he only wanted a few seconds of everything.
-v- was telling me yesterday after returning from daycare details about daycare I have noticed too (now that she mentioned it): the other kids at daycare wear pants and shirts with socks and shoes while Ezra wears a baby body suit most of the time.
The baby body suit is the type of outfit babies wear when sleeping or lounging around the house. I equate it to a babies version of sweats and a sweater, but with 70’s body suit twist.
The baby body suit is one piece like a onesie but is thicker and has longer sleeves and leggings that have feet on the end, so Ezra can have warm feet and not wear socks. The one piece outfit also helps Ezra’s body heat to remain trapped and circulate through out the baby body suit for it is one piece of clothing. If Ezra needs a change of diaper, the baby body suit is easier to access than pants with socks with maybe a onesie underneath. The body suit is great for sleeping, and in my mind it is great for daycare too.
Until -v- mentioned that all the other kids are wearing ‘real’ cloths like button up shirts, pants, socks and shoes (even thought they don’t walk) at daycare, I didn’t care. After she mentioned the kids not wearing baby body suits my mind began to remember the same details I have noticed when dropping Ezra off in the mornings.
Most of the kids are older, but not by much, so now we feel Ezra shouldn’t be dressed in his baby body suits for daycare. Ezra needs to become part of the system like everyone else and the sooner he becomes adjusted to wearing shoes and socks and pants and shirts and not wearing the baby body suit then the sooner we can begin to show him how to dress for the system. I would hate for Ezra to want to wear body suits with feet on the legs and cute animals on his feet forever.
We watched another movie today with Ezra. Ezra lost interest after a few minutes. I think because there was too much dialog and not enough action. Or maybe he found it to be as pointless as I did. For what ever reason, Ezra didn’t become hypnotized by the movie as he has the few times Ezra has watched Football. When he has watched Football, he has gotten that blank stare and partially open mouth that many adults I know get when watching Football. He just looks lost when looking at the screen as the players attack each other because of some ball.
-v- and I are not Football haters, we just prefer other sports, and we both have this deep down fear Ezra will want to play Football then get too many concussions and be unable to become beatbox master or a sane old man.
Ezra, -v-, and I were sitting on the couch. -v- was reading email on her computer, which was before us all. She read an email from a friend of -v- and I, who I shall call A. A sent a link to a video excerpt of a show called Yo! Gabba Gabba, which I had never heard of before.
The excerpt is a short video clip of Yo! Gabba Gabba of some green striped monster dancing around to a song with a bass driven beat and the chorus, ‘There’s a party in my tummy.’ The monster dances around a plate of food on a tree stump in a forest, and the monster sucks down a leg of chicken then sucks down some cheese then sucks down some juice. The chicken (with chicken bone included) and the cheese are not chewed but swallowed as whole pieces of food that slide down the monster’s throat to party in the monster’s stomach. The food and juice then begin to dance and party in the monster’s stomach and stomach acid. The monster then walks away leaving on the plate the green beans and carrots, who are crying because they can’t join the party in the stomach of the monster. The monster, wanting to make the green beans and carrots happy, swallows the beans and carrots whole, and all the food parties in the monster’s stomach because, afterall, there is a party in its tummy.
Are they trying to make Ezra choke? I realize that the cartoons of partying carrots and chicken wouldn’t look fun if they were chewed up pieces of food, but if Ezra needs to fooled by a green striped monster to eat his vegetables because there is some party in his tummy, and if Ezra really believes there is party in his tummy, then maybe Ezra will believe that in order for there to be a party in the tummy that the food needs to be swallowed whole.
Then one thinks: <Well, that’s why you should watch and explain it with Ezra when he is old enough to understand.> And I respond that there is no way in hell I could watch this, and I could save time and ignorance by just talking with Ezra instead of sticking him in front of this collection of images and sounds and hope they don’t kill him with stupidity.
Fortunately, when the video was playing Ezra wasn’t watching for he seemed more interested in staring at his favorite window then he did at the video. Ezra also probably hasn’t the cognitive ability to define the world at the level needed to be manipulated by Yo! Gabba Gabba, and he won’t be eating solid for many months, but kids grow up fast unless they die young trying to swallow a chicken leg whole, so the chicken leg can join the party in their tummy.
-v- and I did watch another clip of Yo! Gabba Gabba of Biz Markie (a beatbox artist) giving a beatbox lesson, so I was happy to see something worth while about the show, and that there will be instructional videos for Ez-O to watch to improve his already natural beatbox skills. I only hope I will be able to censor all the other images of the show because the show seems like it wants Ezra to choke.
I admit that in a year when Ezra begins to run around the house, and has a more developed cognitive ability, I may be a HUGE fan of Yo! Gabba Gabba if it will allows me a few moments to sit down and relax while he watches a beatbox lesson or sees a party in a monster’s tummy.