This is Song
For the past few days, I've been in New York, hanging out with Randirogue and her husband, Don. I'm going to write more about this visit later (not quite sure when, because, at this point, I got a bit of a backlog, but I do want to do it eventually). For now, I wanted to put something together, mostly for the sake of my mom, my siblings, and the English-speaking Russians who may be reading this
You'll see why I added that last one in a few paragraphs.
Last time I was at Randi and Don's was in the spring of 2014 during what I've dubbed my DC-NYC trip. Song was a bit more than a year old, and she didn't seem too terribly keen on me. But now that she's almost three, she is quite a bit more friendly. Even huggy at times.
I decided to get her a Cheburashka for Christmas. A toy like this seems to have gone over well with sirius20_81's youngest daughter, and I figured that, so long as I was going to get an inexpensive plush animal, I might as well get something unique. Song wasn't too interested in playing with him - but she didn't leave him alone, either.
Isn't that adorable?
This is Song playing with Megablocks. She insisted that it was "a baby horse"
Yesterday, Randi and I took Song to the playground, and she proved to be every bit as active as annanov was when she was around that age.
As a bit of an experiment, I tried showing her a few episodes of the old Cheburaska stop-motion cartoon, and she seemed somewhat interested. But she really liked Nu Pogodi, another classic Soviet era cartoon. She was positively entranced.
It probably helps that Nu Pogodi, like classic Looney Tunes/Tom & Jerry type cartoons, has almost no dialogue and plenty of slapstick.
But just to show you how fickle toddlers can be, after watching quite a few classic and new episodes, she noticed a video of someone opening Nu Pogodi Kinder Surprise eggs in "recommended videos" and asked me to play it.
"Are you sure?" I asked. "That's not a cartoon."
"Yes, yes!"
And she's been obsessed with Kinder Surprise videos ever since.
You'll see why I added that last one in a few paragraphs.
Last time I was at Randi and Don's was in the spring of 2014 during what I've dubbed my DC-NYC trip. Song was a bit more than a year old, and she didn't seem too terribly keen on me. But now that she's almost three, she is quite a bit more friendly. Even huggy at times.
I decided to get her a Cheburashka for Christmas. A toy like this seems to have gone over well with sirius20_81's youngest daughter, and I figured that, so long as I was going to get an inexpensive plush animal, I might as well get something unique. Song wasn't too interested in playing with him - but she didn't leave him alone, either.
Isn't that adorable?
This is Song playing with Megablocks. She insisted that it was "a baby horse"
Yesterday, Randi and I took Song to the playground, and she proved to be every bit as active as annanov was when she was around that age.
As a bit of an experiment, I tried showing her a few episodes of the old Cheburaska stop-motion cartoon, and she seemed somewhat interested. But she really liked Nu Pogodi, another classic Soviet era cartoon. She was positively entranced.
It probably helps that Nu Pogodi, like classic Looney Tunes/Tom & Jerry type cartoons, has almost no dialogue and plenty of slapstick.
But just to show you how fickle toddlers can be, after watching quite a few classic and new episodes, she noticed a video of someone opening Nu Pogodi Kinder Surprise eggs in "recommended videos" and asked me to play it.
"Are you sure?" I asked. "That's not a cartoon."
"Yes, yes!"
And she's been obsessed with Kinder Surprise videos ever since.