We did it

So after waking up at 4:30 a.m. and catching odd episodes of "Three's Company" with the baby, I broke down and rented the DVDs from Netflix so I can see the full series. The baby preferred Mr. Furley (Don Knotts) to the Ropers. I think she identified with his amazing fashion sense. She also didn't like the reworking of the theme song in the later seasons. I founds myself disappointed by the end of the show. It was so soap opera and not sitcom.

Baby Likes the Obscure

In the battle of Duran Duran vs. Japan, the baby prefers the artsy moments of David Sylvian to the pop Chic beats of Simon LeBon's band. With any luck, she'll be demanding I play "Gentlemen Take Polaroids" instead of the Wiggles' "Hot Potato." Although all of this is moot when she bounces around to the Three's Company Theme.

The Game Continues

At the end of PBS's "Between the Lions," they announce the show is sponsored by Barksdale Reading Institute. I laugh thinking that the Barksdale crime family from The Wire is now pimping educational programming. Perhaps next week will have Little Jack Horner Defends His Corner as the major book to be read?

Ze French

as the baby begins to speak, I keep thinking it would have been so much better if I'd taught her to speak French at first. Only problem is the only French things I have in the house is a DVD of Last Tango in Paris and the Serge Gainsbourg collection. The last thing I need is a 2 year old running around the house talking like a perverted middle age Parisian. Nothing like having the teacher calling me up to wonder why my child just told her about a torrid weekend in Cannes.

Travelling With Tapes

Just struck me that for any upcoming vacation car trips, I need to make a CD of music that might chill out the baby including the theme to Three's Company. I'm still not going near the Wiggles. Things will be so much easier when the baby has her own iPod for "her music." I'm doubting it'll have much Spacemen-3 on it.

Bonding

I had a major dental issue this week that involved a cracked root in my wisdom tooth followed by an infection. Thus I'm laid up on painkillers. Interestingly enough the baby and I seem to be working on the same wavelength since we're both a bit wobbly when we walk, we start and mysteriously stop things and when we talk, people act like we're not making perfect sense. The good part is that I'm still toilet trained.

not right

When I played the baby an episode of Three's Company from the eighth season, she just stared at the screen since they changed the arrangement.