Disclaimer: These new favorite shows have not, as of yet, replaced any previously favorite shows.
Sometime last week, we were asking her if she wanted to watch Wiggles (no), Barney (no), or Bear in the Big Blue House (no). She said something we didn’t understand at first and then I realized she was saying, “I want to watch Dora.” She likes Dora the Explorer! In setting up a season pass for it, we learned that it conflicts with Wiggles. Both shows come on multiple times each day so we’ve remedied that… she gets some of both shows recorded each day and we’ve got all of them set up to only keep 2-3 episodes so we’re not overwhelmed with kid shows. 🙂
Over the weekend, she surprised me and picked out a Veggietales video. We turned the TV on to play it on the VCR and Blue’s Clues was on. We put the video in and she got mad – she wanted to watch Blue’s Clues! So we now have a season pass for Blues Clues too.
Memorial Day was a mommy/daughter day (daddy had to work) and we went to Toys R Us to return something (a potty training DVD we’d never opened b/c she liked the book instead). I took her over to the book section to pick out a couple of books (didn’t have a receipt so they let me swap it out). First she saw and wanted a Big Red Car book (Wiggles). She was looking at that while I was checking out coloring books and other books when she spotted Dora the Explorer and Boots dolls (Boots is the monkey and friend of Dora’s). They were each wearing a backpack that was a book. She wanted Dora, I gave it to her. Then she wanted Boots. I held Boots and the Big Red Car book up and said, “You can only have one. Pick one.” She picked Boots!! I was shocked. (And one little score for me was that I was able to get both those dolls and still got a penny back! LOL).
The last two nights she’s wanted Dora and Boots. We’ll read the backpack books then she’ll play with them or hug them (Dora cwying!) or make them dance. Oh, one funny at the grocery store after we left the toy store: She had them in the buggy with her and threw Dora out. I fussed at her. At one point I said, “If I hadn’t seen you do that, we’d be looking for Dora and she’d be lost.” Taylor leaned over around me, pointed and said, “There she is.” I gave Dora back, Taylor hugged her, looked at me and said, “Dora cwying.” I said, “Of course she is. You threw her on the floor!”