Life-Saving DVD

This is Caillou, (pronounced ki-you), and his cat, Gilbert. He has made life so much easier with a 2 year old!! Gabe discovered this cartoon about a year ago through Sprout TV, which is a network on DirecTV. He has always enjoyed this specific cartoon, but now it is borderline obsession! We are in the routine of watching Sprout every morning before school (while Gary and I get ready for work), and Gabe would get his Caillou fill from 7:15 to 7:45. So then we get him a DVD for his birthday, and he has become obsessed with this kid. One night we put it on in our bedroom so he could snuggle up under the covers and watch (and so Gary and I could watch our old friend Raymond on tv again!). I must also say that this DVD is 80 min. Anyway, he has come to expect the same thing every night. We have dinner, play for a while, take a bath, and then the Caillou talk starts. "Caillou bed...nuggle...mommy too.....one more...". It is so cute so we oblige every night. Like I said, it is not too bad because we can catch up on the news, watch Raymond, or just enjoy some normal tv time. Caillou, and Sprout for that matter, had become such a part of our lives that it was not unusual for Gary and I to watch cartoons from 6-8 every night! Talk about Gabe running the household!

But here is the funny part. I can hear Gabe laughing from the bedroom and at all the same funny parts. Then I started to hear him singing along with the songs. And just last night I could hear him talking along with the characters! So funny. Also, instead of wanting me to stay and snuggle with him, now he tells me "no mommy...go away". So we put on the DVD at 7 every night, check on him from time to time, and turn it off while he protests "one more" at 8. Very routine, which is why it is probably so comforting to him. We keep joking that we need to buy another Caillou DVD before he gets burnt out from this one, but I don't think we are in any danger of that happening any time soon! Yeah Caillou!