Followup to Doe-wa

I don't have much time to post today. We had our back-to-back soccer games again today. They were so close, in fact, that we asked the team manager of DS#1's team to pick him up at DS#2's game so he could make it to the warmup before his game (which was across town, of course). By the time we got to DS#1's game, it had already started. We didn't even have time to have lunch, so we had a big "linner" at about 3:30PM or so. The kids were so confused about whether or not we had lunch and dinner!

Anyway, as a followup to my last post, this morning, DS#3 became so cranky and clingy right after I had gone downstairs to make breakfast. There was no way that I could carry him AND make breakfast, and he was so distressed and crying so much, so I asked DS#2 to put the "Dora the Explorer" DVR tape on the TV. At the mere mention of Dora, DS#3 suddenly became quiet and went immediately to the living room so he could sit down and watch the show!

A similar thing happened yesterday when I was trying to help DD with her piano lesson pieces. He wanted to play the piano too, and that would have been way too distracting for her. I have a "Dora" video on ITunes that I played for him. He became quiet and actually started smiling and dancing! It was amazing! I don't advocate using TV to babysit your kids, but I can see why people do it!