Is anyone familiar with this book series? Did it originally come in young reader novel form or in toddler/board book form? And has anyone come across a vendor for the CD of songs from the television show? The CD is called "Songs for Little Bugs", I believe.
I would watch this show on VOD when Alex would be playing with something else. I think it's a really good series. Eventually Alex came to like it through it's really pretty theme song. So, now I'd like to get the books. I think he'd get a kick out of seeing the characters in print.
Thanks!
Lynne
Thursday, January 15, 2009
Friday, January 9, 2009
The Winter Cuties (Alexisms)
Alex does so many things that are adorable to me, I can't even whittle them down well.
- He says hugs anything he really likes, declaring 'Hug!'. A stuffed animal, us, a book, an image in a book, his boots, his sippy cup.
-He loves music and love to sing along with his favorite songs. But the funniest has to be the classical music pieces that he likes. I would get him to sit still for face wiping and hair combing by 'humming' the overture to the Barber of Seville. (If you don't recognize the name, trust me, you know it.) My humming was like, 'Do-do-do'. Now, Alex demands that piece whenever we do any kind of grooming of him by stopping us and saying 'Do-do-do-do-do!' We need to hum the Barber of Seville for him.
- Whenever he's really hungry, he'll ASK for me to cook dinner. 'Din-din-din! Mama. Din-din-din.'
- He rushes through books just so he can close the cover and say "Eh End." ("The End")
-He'll request other songs from me by singing the first word like "Heaaaad" for "Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes" or "Rowrowrow" for Row, Row, Row Your Boat. He'll keep on doing it until I start singing the song.
-He FINALLY asks for help on a toy that has a difficulty to it. "He-ep. Mama. He-ep". He used to get frustrated and cry.
- He likes to test our knowledge of pictures in his picture book. Now he points to items he already knows and asks US "What's this?" He'll keep on asking until we answer. When he wants to know what a new picture is, he just points to it without saying anything.
- I have no idea where he got this from. If he's done singing or dancing to some music, he'll stop and say "Thank you, thank you!" while taking a bow. I guess we're supposed to be applauding.
Soooo many more. He cracks me up every day.
- He says hugs anything he really likes, declaring 'Hug!'. A stuffed animal, us, a book, an image in a book, his boots, his sippy cup.
-He loves music and love to sing along with his favorite songs. But the funniest has to be the classical music pieces that he likes. I would get him to sit still for face wiping and hair combing by 'humming' the overture to the Barber of Seville. (If you don't recognize the name, trust me, you know it.) My humming was like, 'Do-do-do'. Now, Alex demands that piece whenever we do any kind of grooming of him by stopping us and saying 'Do-do-do-do-do!' We need to hum the Barber of Seville for him.
- Whenever he's really hungry, he'll ASK for me to cook dinner. 'Din-din-din! Mama. Din-din-din.'
- He rushes through books just so he can close the cover and say "Eh End." ("The End")
-He'll request other songs from me by singing the first word like "Heaaaad" for "Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes" or "Rowrowrow" for Row, Row, Row Your Boat. He'll keep on doing it until I start singing the song.
-He FINALLY asks for help on a toy that has a difficulty to it. "He-ep. Mama. He-ep". He used to get frustrated and cry.
- He likes to test our knowledge of pictures in his picture book. Now he points to items he already knows and asks US "What's this?" He'll keep on asking until we answer. When he wants to know what a new picture is, he just points to it without saying anything.
- I have no idea where he got this from. If he's done singing or dancing to some music, he'll stop and say "Thank you, thank you!" while taking a bow. I guess we're supposed to be applauding.
Soooo many more. He cracks me up every day.
January 9, 2009
Friday, January 2, 2009
Yo Fi-i-ive! No Jive!
Alex lurrrrves the number 5. He has a 'Best of Elmo' DVD that includes Elmo doing some seriously 80s dance number about '5'. It has to be one of Alex's favorite songs of all time.
'Yo, fi-i-ive!'
Alex can count to five. I've also heard him count backwards from three, but I'm not sure if he understands fully what he's doing there. He's able to recognize numerals up to 10, but not count that far, yet.
But 5? He's totally on board with 5.
'Yo, fi-i-ive!'
Alex can count to five. I've also heard him count backwards from three, but I'm not sure if he understands fully what he's doing there. He's able to recognize numerals up to 10, but not count that far, yet.
But 5? He's totally on board with 5.
January 2, 2009
Wednesday, December 24, 2008
I Played My Drum For Him
Ever try to clean anything with a 21 month old running around? It can't be done in four hours, that's for sure.
So, nothing is clean the way I wanted it. I don't have the gifts I wanted to get for Alex because I didn't have enough time. I don't have the gifts I wanted for Dan for the same reason. (They're all coming later). I spent half an afternoon in Manhattan today grabbing the gifts they 'need'.
Dinner tonight was a plain ol' dinner I make often. Alex didn't nap today, so he was in a foul mood from about 4 PM on. He had zero attention span in trying to do anything. I couldn't get many pictures or even watch our whole Christmas movie because he was so overtired that he wouldn't stay still, nor make much sense. Doesn't matter much anyway, since I still have a stack of Christmas decorations piled up on my study desk which probably aren't getting up.
Soooo, it wasn't a great idea to go away only days after Thanksgiving, only to have to study all day every alternate day ('cuz Dan did too) up to the 17th. From the 18th on, Alex has been a serious handful and I just couldn't keep up.
After dinner we sang some carols to Alex. Much to our surprise, he seemed to know "Silent Night". He sang along with it. Only once, of course, and not again to the video camera. Then we cheered him up with some cinnamon raisin toast while we told him that he did so many "yays" this year that Santa ran out of paper and two ink cartridges trying to keep track of them.
After a futile 15 minutes of trying to get photos (limited to the one corner in which I can take any decent photos), I gave up and told Dan to get him ready for bed.
When Dan brought him to me to say "Goodnight", Alex threw out his arms to try to wrap them around me, declaring:
"Mama. HUG!"
And then he squealed with laughter.
I guess the regular ol' dinner and his special new Winnie the Pooh slippers and the "Christmas toast" with carols were all he really needed. Hug, Baby. Mama hug.
Have a Merry Christmas all!
So, nothing is clean the way I wanted it. I don't have the gifts I wanted to get for Alex because I didn't have enough time. I don't have the gifts I wanted for Dan for the same reason. (They're all coming later). I spent half an afternoon in Manhattan today grabbing the gifts they 'need'.
Dinner tonight was a plain ol' dinner I make often. Alex didn't nap today, so he was in a foul mood from about 4 PM on. He had zero attention span in trying to do anything. I couldn't get many pictures or even watch our whole Christmas movie because he was so overtired that he wouldn't stay still, nor make much sense. Doesn't matter much anyway, since I still have a stack of Christmas decorations piled up on my study desk which probably aren't getting up.
Soooo, it wasn't a great idea to go away only days after Thanksgiving, only to have to study all day every alternate day ('cuz Dan did too) up to the 17th. From the 18th on, Alex has been a serious handful and I just couldn't keep up.
After dinner we sang some carols to Alex. Much to our surprise, he seemed to know "Silent Night". He sang along with it. Only once, of course, and not again to the video camera. Then we cheered him up with some cinnamon raisin toast while we told him that he did so many "yays" this year that Santa ran out of paper and two ink cartridges trying to keep track of them.
After a futile 15 minutes of trying to get photos (limited to the one corner in which I can take any decent photos), I gave up and told Dan to get him ready for bed.
When Dan brought him to me to say "Goodnight", Alex threw out his arms to try to wrap them around me, declaring:
"Mama. HUG!"
And then he squealed with laughter.
I guess the regular ol' dinner and his special new Winnie the Pooh slippers and the "Christmas toast" with carols were all he really needed. Hug, Baby. Mama hug.
Have a Merry Christmas all!
December 24, 2008
Monday, December 22, 2008
Waiting on the Special Present
I am trying to get a response from a book printer located in Murrary, Utah. According to Yahoo Maps, Murray appears to be a suburb of Salt Lake City, located to the south of it. Murray seems to be directly west of Halladay, Utah.
I've been waiting to hear from these people for two days, not having received a response to three emails nor even my book order. I'm about to cancel my subscription and email them the direction to cancel my book order - but not if someone can tell me that it's the case that this area of Utah has been hit with unusually bad snow that is stopping business.
So, I asked the Moms. Shout out to Utah moms!
I was told that the snow was unusually heavy, even for Utah. Book publisher has been saved.
Get here board books!!!
I've been waiting to hear from these people for two days, not having received a response to three emails nor even my book order. I'm about to cancel my subscription and email them the direction to cancel my book order - but not if someone can tell me that it's the case that this area of Utah has been hit with unusually bad snow that is stopping business.
So, I asked the Moms. Shout out to Utah moms!
I was told that the snow was unusually heavy, even for Utah. Book publisher has been saved.
Get here board books!!!
Noses and Other New Interests
What is it with that nose thing? Alex gets way into his nose lately.
I love it when he sings along with songs he likes. He particularly loves this song from The Great Day of the Fliers (from the Land Before Time). The song is 'Flip, Flap and Fly' and Alex calls it - and the whole movie - 'Flap, Flap'. He'll sing 'Flap, flap' to the song. He'll call any image of a pterodactyl 'Flap, Flap' and even any image of a bird in flight 'Flap, flap'. Alex has also taken to starting to call the charatcers he likes on his toy phone. Dan heard him having a conversation with 'Mouse' and 'Mice' (from the Nutcracker). Last night he called Blue from Blue's Clues saying 'Hello Blue?' and then jargoning the rest of his conversation except to say 'Bye' before he hung up.
I wish I had videos of it. Predictably, he'll stop as soon as I get the camera out.
I love it when he sings along with songs he likes. He particularly loves this song from The Great Day of the Fliers (from the Land Before Time). The song is 'Flip, Flap and Fly' and Alex calls it - and the whole movie - 'Flap, Flap'. He'll sing 'Flap, flap' to the song. He'll call any image of a pterodactyl 'Flap, Flap' and even any image of a bird in flight 'Flap, flap'. Alex has also taken to starting to call the charatcers he likes on his toy phone. Dan heard him having a conversation with 'Mouse' and 'Mice' (from the Nutcracker). Last night he called Blue from Blue's Clues saying 'Hello Blue?' and then jargoning the rest of his conversation except to say 'Bye' before he hung up.
I wish I had videos of it. Predictably, he'll stop as soon as I get the camera out.
December 22, 2008
Tuesday, December 2, 2008
Mouse!
This semester has been a rough one. Alex has been nap-striking and refusing nightly bedtime since early September. I used to be able to study and do homework during his naps and in the early mornings before he'd call for me. Without those times, I was constantly playing catch-up into the wee hours of the night. Tonight was no exception.
Alex wouldn't go down until shortly after 11:15 tonight. I was a bundle of misery, with a test due tonight and such.
A few days ago, I needed the Christmas Spirit to get started already. So, I ordered a DVR movie, looking for some Christmas themed movie. All I could get that looked decent was 'Barbie in the Nutcracker'. It's the Nutcracker story, but with some of the ballet and Tchiakovsky's music, but 'Barbie' is drawn like Barbie and 'cast' as Clara. Alex loves exciting music and Tchiakovsky usually doesn't disappoint in that area. I thought Alex might like some parts of the story. He did.
His favorite part so far is when the Mouse King comes into Clara's house looking for the Nutcracker. And the Nutcracker battles the Mouse King and his mice soldiers.
So, tonight, Dan put it on for Alex while he was fixing some late night snack. I was a stressball, unable to concentrate. I walked out of the den and headed for the kitchen to get some decaf. There was Alex, holding onto a book and lightly swashing it like a sword against his play yard walls. He looked up at me and said "Mouse!" as if to explain what he was doing.
He was battling the evil Mouse King.
It's hard to stay stressed out about math tests when Alex is fighting the Mouse King. So, I got a sip of decaf and walked back into the living room to plop down and watch the Nutcracker with Alex.
Life is good.
Alex wouldn't go down until shortly after 11:15 tonight. I was a bundle of misery, with a test due tonight and such.
A few days ago, I needed the Christmas Spirit to get started already. So, I ordered a DVR movie, looking for some Christmas themed movie. All I could get that looked decent was 'Barbie in the Nutcracker'. It's the Nutcracker story, but with some of the ballet and Tchiakovsky's music, but 'Barbie' is drawn like Barbie and 'cast' as Clara. Alex loves exciting music and Tchiakovsky usually doesn't disappoint in that area. I thought Alex might like some parts of the story. He did.
His favorite part so far is when the Mouse King comes into Clara's house looking for the Nutcracker. And the Nutcracker battles the Mouse King and his mice soldiers.
So, tonight, Dan put it on for Alex while he was fixing some late night snack. I was a stressball, unable to concentrate. I walked out of the den and headed for the kitchen to get some decaf. There was Alex, holding onto a book and lightly swashing it like a sword against his play yard walls. He looked up at me and said "Mouse!" as if to explain what he was doing.
He was battling the evil Mouse King.
It's hard to stay stressed out about math tests when Alex is fighting the Mouse King. So, I got a sip of decaf and walked back into the living room to plop down and watch the Nutcracker with Alex.
Life is good.
December 2, 2008
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