Kate's likes and dislikes....

...are endless, but here are a few I think are worth remembering: She likes youtube. I don't think I know any kids (or grateful parents) who DON'T like youtube. How did our poor parents do it without all these modern conveniences? But, here's the thing: Kate likes foreign editions of "Mickey Mouse" on youtube. I discovered this by accident because, usually, Kate bathes while I shower, thus killing two birds with one stone and allowing me to keep an eye on her. Sometimes the timing of this doesn't work, though, so in that case she usually watches clips of things on youtube while I shower as quickly as only a mother can. :) She always asks for Mickey Mouse and I let her point at the one she wants. The other day she pointed at one and I played it, but I didn't stay to watch it. She kept asking for it again, and then more and more that it suggested as the next one. Today I discovered that they were all in foreign languages. I asked her if she could understand it and she said, "of course I can, mommy" as if I were asking the dumbest question possible. Who knows?? As for her dislikes, these are also abundant. But two things really bug her: the book "Rock-a-bye Farm" and the song "Kookaburra." In "Rock-a-bye" farm this farmer rocks all his animals to sleep, and the last one he rocks is a mouse. The mouse goes to sleep in a little bed in the farmer's room (weird, yes). The next page is the farmer going to bed and the mouse's bed is still there, but there's no mouse in it. This has driven her crazy for months. Seriously crazy. If you read it to her at night, she wakes up the next morning asking "where is that mouse?" Since her mouse-paranoia was in turn driving us crazy, this book just made it's way into a school gift exchange.... As for "Kookaburra," if it comes on in the car, she asks "what is this song about, mommy? I think it's weird." And I must agree. And that's my "kooky" kid!!