Thanks to ABC Disney Family's 25 Days of Christmas tv marathon, we've been enjoying many of the television Christmas specials from our childhood with the peanut this month. It has been so fun watching her reactions to different programs. We've been very selective with which ones we show because she is unusually sensitive and fearful of anything close to yelling or violence/action. Lots of fast forwarding has been going on, but overall it has been a wonderful experiment.
This week I'm sharing a few of our favorite songs from childhood classic specials. Well, everything is a song except for number 5: Pixar's Short "Presto." We recorded the Pixar Shorts "movie" and the peanut has become obsessed with her "Bunny Show" as she calls it. I love that she is already a Pixar fan. Can't wait till she's old enough to appreciate "Toy Story" and "Finding Nemo" (both of which have scenes that terrify her right now.) I think I've seen "Presto" 10 times in the last 24 hours, thought you'd enjoy sharing the experience. Surprisingly, the Bugs Bunny style violence in this short doesn't seem to phase her. I think it has something to do with the cute bunny who just wants his carrot. Go figure.
Have you been passing down any childhood memories this month?
Heidi Peters
I LOVE that you included that short Presto film. What fun!
Hmmm... passing down childhood memories... is that the same as passing down traditions?
-The girls love watching our old claymation cartoons (Rudolph, Frosty, etc.)
-St. Nick always put an orange at the bottom of each stocking and wrote a nasty “you better shape up” letter to us. We’ve tamed down the letter, but the orange remains a staple.
-The best memories of Christmas for me involve singing. We continue to have a day devoted to baking cookies and singing carols at high volume (harmonies are a requirement at my mother’s house.)
-When I was a kid, we used to go caroling around the neighborhood, walking door to door. It was always pitch black, and we had live candles but no wax-catchers, so our gloves always were annihilated. While we're not brave enough to face the elements these days, we DID take the girls caroling with church (via warm school bus transportation.)
-I have fond memories of our very competitive German tradition of hiding a glass pickle in the Christmas tree; whoever seeks it first wins a prize (although that prize has matured from little widgets to a bottle of vino and back to kid-friendly widgets.)
-Growing up, I remember drinking a lot of hot chocolate during December; that memory has been passed down and is in full force every weekend!
I really want to the Elf on a Shelf tradition, and plan to get one of those cuties on December 26th this year.