TV Talk
It's no secret that Olive is a bit of a TV junkie. I console myself with the knowledge that she never watches commercials, and that most of the shows she loves (Dora, Teletubbies, Oswald, etc.) are innocuous if not moderately educational. The funny thing is that she just likes to watch the same episode over and over, until she knows it by heart... it's part of that whole toddler-repetition shtick.
At any rate, a couple of TV-cribbed phrases have surfaced recently. My favorite is "I have a better idea," from the Henry Needs a Haircut episode of Oswald. Henry the penguin needs a haircut, but keeps putting it off with wacky antics, all preceded by the catchphrase "I have a better idea."
Olivia uses this liberally. "Olivia, do you want some peas?" "No, I have a better idea." She doesn't follow up with an actual idea, but it's a darned cute way of saying "No, quit bothering me."
Our friend Stacey and her adorable six-month-old daughter Reiley visited us last week. For the first hour, Olivia excitedly repeated their names: "Stacey! Baby Wiley!" but after awhile she seemed to forget Reiley's name and was substituting the names of other babies she knows:
"Baby Anneke!"
"No, that's not Anneke. What's her name?"
[long pause]
"Baby Tuna Fowwa!"
It took me awhile to realize she was saying "Baby Petunia Flower!" - a character in a Dora episode. It was a mighty cute, and fitting, substitution, since Reiley is a darned cute little peanut of a kid. "Baby Petunia Flower" she has been christened by Olive!



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