I’m not big on letting my kids watch movies. \u00a0When we go on car trips, however, we never leave home without Dora movies. \u00a0Aaron drives and listens to a book on his iPod, I read, and Kayla and Madeline watch endless episodes of Dora the Explorer. \u00a0(Savannah chills out, rarely sleeps and occasionally vocalizes her discontentment!) \u00a0<\/p>\n
This morning, Madeline (who is always pretending to be someone else) was Dora. \u00a0I’m not sure how much of this is from her own head and how much is from actual Dora episodes, but I sure thought it was cute nonetheless!<\/p>\n
Madeline:\u00a0 I\u2019m Dora.<\/p>\n
Mommy:\u00a0 Oh, hi, Dora.\u00a0 What are you going to do today?\u00a0 Are you going to go on an adventure?<\/p>\n
Madeline:\u00a0 Yeah.<\/p>\n
Mommy:\u00a0 Are you going to help somebody?<\/p>\n
Madeline:\u00a0 Yeah.\u00a0 Boots.<\/p>\n
Mommy:\u00a0 Oh, did Boots lose something?<\/p>\n
Madeline:\u00a0 His boots!<\/p>\n
Mommy:\u00a0 Oh boy!\u00a0 Boots lost his boots.\u00a0 Where will you go to find them?<\/p>\n
Madeline:\u00a0 To the nut forest!\u00a0 Boots and I will go there, and Tico will take us there in his car.\u00a0 And then the nuts will follow us there, and they\u2019ll go back up in the trees.<\/p>\n
Mommy:\u00a0 Wow!\u00a0 The nuts will go back up in the trees?<\/p>\n
Madeline:\u00a0 Yeah, and then we\u2019ll go to Crocodile Lake.\u00a0 Benny will help Boots when he falls out of the boat.\u00a0 Yeah, he falls out of the boat when he\u2019s getting Dora\u2019s backpack.<\/p>\n
Mommy:\u00a0 Oh did Backpack fall in Crocodile Lake?<\/p>\n
Madeline:\u00a0 Yeah.\u00a0 And then I\u2019ll go play with the Fiesta Trio!\u00a0 And I\u2019ll sing a song with them.\u00a0 I\u2019ll sing \u201cMy God is So Big!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I’m not big on letting my kids watch movies. \u00a0When we go on car trips, however, we never leave home without Dora movies. \u00a0Aaron drives and listens to a book on his iPod, I read, and Kayla and Madeline watch endless episodes of Dora the Explorer. \u00a0(Savannah chills out, rarely sleeps and occasionally vocalizes her […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n