Just about 4 YO Tribe in october - Page 3

[MamaFern]

[majazama]

nevermind

[**guest**]

Hmmm, what'd I miss?

[Mona]

hehe, i think they were having sisterly-in-law conversations that felt to public. :P

so movies. hrm
Kathrynn likes Spirit, Kiki, Brother Bear, Shrek one and two, various sesame street stuff, and various comic book things like spiderman, fantastic four, stuff like that.
Her interests and obsessions come and go so we have a decent stock of things we rotate thru. We go to teh library to get various things. Peeps is a good show that we have gotten from the library.
Stuff i don't like but don;t keep her from getting are Barney and Clifford. She doesn't watch tv, so doesn't get swayed by some of the wierd shows out there.

We went to a Ren Fest yesterday. OMG it was great fun. Anyone have interest in the SCA or stuff like that? I can see how K might go that route.

Hope everyone has had a good weekend so far.

Rynna- how is the brown rice thing going?

hugs!
lisa

[**guest**]

I love Ren faires. I went to a couple of SCA events. It was fun.

[hipumpkins]

Does anyone else's child have sophisticated taste in movies?

We don't do Tv but we have movie once a week (It will probably gp back to twice once winter comes ) DD right now is into cinderella, The Sound of Music (she's loved this for a year now) and...Are you ready for this??

Godzilla. DH intorduced the erm baby godzilla and she is hooked. She loves seeing the baby godzilla.

[jillmamma]

As far as movies go, DS is really into Thomas the Tank Engine, and some kids' videos we have on cars, trains, fire trucks and other vehicles. He also occasionally likes to watch Robots or Shrek, but most of the time if you ask him what he wants to watch, it's Thomas.

Drawing, well, he is Mr. Do My Own Thing in that area too. He has NO interest in coloring "inside the lines" or drawing faces. Just big circles and lines, and later he will tell you what he thinks they look like.

[MamaFern]

Originally Posted by OdeToJoy

Hmmm, what'd I miss?

not much. trust me. :

[MamaFern]

movies..

elwynn likes watching the box. he likes it too much so ive been really limiting the time he spends in front of it.

i try to avoid disney movies but my mom gave him one called treasure planet that he loves. its got pirates and stuff.. i think it is a bit violent but what can i do.. he already knows what violence is. he tells me if he thinks its too scary or violent and he covers his own eyes or turns it off all together.
the other day we were at the movie store looking for a film to rent and the dude there recomended "kiki's delivery service" about a witch.. its an animaltion done by the same people as spirited away and stuff.. but elwynn took one look at the cover and said "nope. too violent" i think he just wasnt interested but didnt want to say that since i was kinda into it.

anyways..

he really likes franklin and we have a couple of vidios with a bunch of episodes on each. i like them too...a lot of kids movies/shows i just cant stand so when we both can enjoy it together snuggled up its nice.

he also really likes the show with bugs on it.. maybe its called miss spider or something.. its pretty cute. ive een taping stuff for him so he can watch it without having commercials which i cant stand in the least.


he is still totally into books though and lego is his new favorite activity.

[**guest**]

MamaFern- Kiki's Delivery Service isn't violent at all. It's a fabulous movie for young children.
My Neighbor Totoro is a great movie too.

[MamaFern]

Originally Posted by OdeToJoy

MamaFern- Kiki's Delivery Service isn't violent at all. It's a fabulous movie for young children.
My Neighbor Totoro is a great movie too.

we are going to rent it some time the movie dude said it has a great message.

[majazama]

Originally Posted by OdeToJoy

Hmmm, what'd I miss?

A too public disagreement.:

[DecemberSun]

So, yeah, Zachary tells me and DH that we're mean. He has stopped saying that he hates me, which I am so thankful for. I made the mistake of watching Nanny 911 with him on Friday night and even though he only watched about 5 minutes of it before falling asleep he started saying the same things that he saw on the show. This 8 yr old girl was just horrible, telling her parents she wished they were dead and she hated them and stuff. So this morning Zachary says "You hate me." So we had a talk about that. Long story short, I will not make the mistake of letting him watch that show anymore!

Zachary does not draw at all, but he likes to paint and will color sometimes. He loses interest in his preschool workbook pretty quickly. Julianna, OTOH, can't get enough of it and is starting to memorize letters and their sounds, and she colors *all* the time. She has started drawing people- round faces with eyes, nose, mouth, and two legs coming down from the head- which my teacher friend has informed me is right-on for this age range. () And the other day she made this adorable family of sharks on the Magnadoodle.

My kids love TV. : Julianna *really* has to be limited because she is the type of kid who would sit in front of the TV all day long if she was allowed. She has gotten very good about me turning it off when it's time, though. They usually watch the PBS Kids Sprout channel, which I love because there are no commercials for toys or food- maybe a few here and there for mortgage companies or something like that, and it's only one at a time between shows. I can not stand it when they watch Disney or Nickelodeon because after every stupid toy commerical they say "I want that!" : Julianna is really into Dora right now (we recorded a bunch of episodes and made her a video), also Dragon Tales and Angelina Ballerina. Zachary's favorite movie right now is Stand By Me : : . He is fascinated by the scene with the leeches, and of course the Barf-A-Rama. He still loves The Incredibles after all this time, and Thomas, but mostly he likes to play video games instead of watching movies. Oh, and once they BEGGED to watch the movie It because of the clown on the front. I tried to explain to them that it was a scary movie but they kept bugging me about it, so I put it on and they loved it. The blood and spider and all. My kids are freakin' weird. But please don't think I'm a bad parent because I let my kids watch a couple of R rated movies... : (I make up for it in other ways, right? )

[klouise55]

my ds is a jan 03 "baby" so that is pretty close...
Re DVD player - we have one for long trips only ie 6+ hrs, and we travel alot. We went on a 12 hr trip to Quebec City and NB and forgot to bring it! I thought it would be a disaster, but was really surprised to find that he did really well. We sang a lot of songs, he played with sticker books and a magnet game, and read us stories (made up). It was awesome.

Re - a few posts back on the Field Museum, in Chicago. We went there in the spring and it was truly an amazing exhibit on the dinosaurs. We were at the museum for 5 hrs and did not see everything and would love to go back. You will love it!


Re Movies - my ds loves March of the Penguins and also jack johnson concert dvd. for kids shows he likes Franklin and thomas, also Backyardigans.

[mamabeth]

Hi there--we are back from our trip. The trip there was horrible...I almost stopped and bought a DVD player but somehow we made it thru! The trip back was better bc I travelled at night for part of it. We stopped around 7 to nurse the baby, pee, and get settled, and they both conked out til I made it home around 9:15. it was the way to do it.

movies....dd watched her first ever Disney movies this wkd bc her godmother has all of them. She wasn't terribly interested and they were kinda scary for her. Usually the only thing she watches is Sesame Street, 1 hour a day. She zones out too so we limit pretty seriously. But on vacation.... oh well!

[DecemberSun]

Glad your trip was managable for the most part, mamabeth.

I am going to buy the Little Mermaid since it came out on DVD... But I'm buying it for myself because I think it's a cute movie. Talk about non-crunchy! :

Where the heck are you, Rynna? Doing ok, I hope...

[XmasEve]

Right now dc is way into the Star Wars movies. She and dh watch one each weekend. In the past she loved Lord of the Rings. She thought Gollum was such a cutie. She HAS to have a "bad guy" in the movie. Brother Bear doesn't cute it because there is no defined bad guy. And she thinks March of the Penguins is punishment!

[Daffodil]

Lindy thought March of the Penguins was pretty boring. Anyone else's kids really into "scary" stuff? Lindy loves not-too-scary books with ghosts, haunted houses, kids afraid of monsters in their rooms, etc. For some reason I was telling her about Disney World the other day, and when I described the Small World ride, she said she would be scared of it because of the moving models of people. But when I described the Haunted Mansion, she got all excited and said she would be really interested in that.

[famousmockngbrd]

Originally Posted by hipumpkins

Godzilla. DH intorduced the erm baby godzilla and she is hooked. She loves seeing the baby godzilla.

OK, hp, now this is just getting weird. DS loved that movie too. We had to play Godzilla and Baby games for a few weeks after he saw it.

[IfMamaAintHappy]

subbing! I will try to read tomorrow, need to head to bed as its nearly 2 am, and my sweet darling nearly 4 yr old alarm clock will be waking up promptly at 7. Lily will be 4 on Nov 26.