So I do happy morning teevee girlie time maybe once a month, on a morning when it is cloudy, I am laaazy, and all I want to do is sit around and read a grown-up book. We did a little Dragontales this morning, and half of Sesame Street, before too much time had passed between Second Breakfast and Elevenses.
As I was making the third meal of the day, Frannie climbed up into her booster chair. I heard her saying happily, “They’re grrrrreat! They’re grrrrrreat!”
That’s weird, I thought. Sounds like the old Frosted Flakes tagline. I started to think about Frosted Flakes…mmm…sugary goodness. Makes the roof of your mouth hurt…sugar crashes.
Then I heard something really alarming come out of Frannie’s mouth, verbatim and eerily clear: “This program is brought to you by the Ready-to-Learn Foundation!” I snapped around. She was spewing public television station break filler. No commercials, my giant honey baked ham.
“Brought to you by ‘O’ for Basketti-O’s!!!” She banged her spoon on her glass and smiled at me.
oh I feel for you… my 3.5 yr old daughter cannot say “PBS” without adding “dot org” to the end of the phrase.
Hey, tape it, send it to funniest home videos, you’ll be a miiillionaire!
I think she can sense the things that you don’t want her to say and therefore says it. Perhaps she repeats things from TV more because she doesn’t watch it as often?
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oh bloody hell! that is priceless! :)
i want more frenchie pics. i haven’t seen one since she was a wee tacker.
Hoping to get new ones up over spring break. I would also like to get a photostrip up and be rid of that boxer fellow….
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And they say TV doesn’t teach kids anything…This is evidence you should watch TV around your kids as much as possible (or maybe not). But I agree with Morgan–the less TV you watch the more magical it will be to her.
And how DID she get the tagline from an old commercial? Maybe these things are absorbed through the skin at birth or something. Sometimes I wonder that…
Monkey: Blog bigotry…I love that…
Miel: They’re STILL using the same tag, the bastids.
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hehehe! I’m so glad that such classic moments from films like that are actually real life instead :-D
Hmmm, what will happen when she starts inventively combining things? ‘Your wulva was brought to you by …’