I thought it might be useful to share with this blog's few regular readers Sadie's current obsessions, entertainment-wise. If your kid has/had their own random obsessions that you bust out to cure a bad mood or shamelessly exploit to occupy them for five minutes while you brush your teeth, I would LOVE to hear them.
"Elmo's Song"
Sadie knows this song so well that her way of asking for it is "Elmo la la la."
"Elmo's Ducks"
Elmo's Song has recently been surpassed by this video starring Elmo, a catchy tune, and four ducks that yell "QUACK" at regular intervals. Toddler crack.
"Goodnight Moon" by Margaret Wise Brown
I don't think it will come as much of a shocker to any parent that Sadie needs this book read to her at least three times before she'll deign to go to bed. When she's done with "Moan," as she calls it, her next request is inevitably:
"When You Give a Mouse a Cookie" by Laura Numeroff
If you don't own this book yet, I highly recommend you go out and get it. It stars a hyperactive mouse whose personality suspiciously resembles a two-year old. Sadie likes to yell out certain words in this book while I'm reading it to her, and she always mimes "sweeping," "washing," and, bizarrely, "mustache."
"SoundTouch"
This is an iPhone app, and it can reliably be used to occupy Sadie's attention for a solid 15 minutes in the morning while I'm making her breakfast. GET THIS APP. It categorizes illustrations of animals, instruments and common household items, then when you touch each one, it shows a photo of that thing along with the sound it makes. So if you press the tiger picture, it shows a photo of a real tiger along with the tiger's roar. You're also treated to the sound of "TIGER!" being delightedly shrieked in your ear.
So, people? Any recommendations of your own?
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For us, it's all about C is for Cookie which involves a lot of dancing and saying the word cookie! If Veronica sees any of the Sesame St characters, she says cookie. Second fave is the video of Elmo and India singing the alphabet. And third fave is the 12 ladybugs at a picnic.
ReplyDeleteBook-wise for us it's The Going to Bed Book and the other regular is Goodnight Gorilla. Both involve a lot of miming the story, which V does with such glee every time! I'll have to check out that mouse book, we don't have it!
It's horrible but if I really need her to be distracted by something new, I use food. Crackers. She gets her own little bowl of them and will go stand and eat them at the coffee table quietly EVERY TIME. Won't come inside? Crackers. Screaming about something? Crackers. Getting into something? Crackers. I don't know what I'll do when that wears off because it's been a savior!
The geeky Startup Weekend events I go to have spawned a really cool-sounding iPhone app called "Where's Mommy?". Sounds like something that Sadie might enjoy. Check it out here: http://startupweekend.org/2011/04/15/wheres-mommy-launches-mobile-app-for-iphone-ipad-and-android/
ReplyDeleteI just saw your comment, Melanie. What a great idea for an app. I'm going to install it right now!
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