Josh was insightful enough to suggest that our next Netflix rental should be the Aristocats. We've had the DVD in our house for about four days now. He was right: it's the only film or TV show that has the power to mesmerize Lola at this point in her development. For those who aren't raising young children right now, I should explain that this trait of Lola's isn't normal (TV and movie resistance). The vast majority of kids is easily hypnotized. Hence, a parental sigh of relief was sighed tonight when we had the experience many of our peers take for granted: an hour of TV babysitting.
Despite our selfish motivations, we also saw Lola reap some benefits from movie time. When we were all sitting in her room later, she pulled out her musical instrument box (not always her first choice of toy) and played the xylophone, then the drums. The musical show-stopper in The Aristocats ("Everybody Wants to Be A Cat") features versions of these instruments. Finally, she achieved verisimilitude by placing her tambourine on top of her drum and hitting it with the drum sticks. It sounded a lot like the jazzy cymbals the cats played in the film. She also likes to say, "Oh yeah," like the kitten Toulouse does when he gets "hep."--K
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