I may need support from you other moms out there, but I have a new secret favorite television show. . . The Wonder Pets.
I had to present an all day, 8 hour seminar in Texas in July, and the next day, I flew home. I wasn on the plane, and I needed a mental release from the stress of the previous day. I grabbed my iPod and watched the Wonder Pets save the baby dolphin in Hawaii ("Aloha, Hawaii." "Oohh. It's very tropical.") -- it was an episode I put on my iPod for Henry to watch when we flew to Florida last spring.
I could seriously watch this show for hours. I love the little song ("The phone, the phone is ringing!" - wouldn't that be a great ringtone?). I love the tin can phone system at the beginning. I've been analyzing this guilty pleasure and trying to come to peace with it, and I've decided I like the show so much because it's secretly the peaceful world in which I would like to live - where in some Polyannaish way we could all take care of each other and appreciate each species (okay, person) in existence. But, what makes the Wonder Pets world so great is not just the Team Work... it's also that every animal is cheerful, polite to each other, has each other's best interest in mind, and every problem has a simple solution if we just think about it and work together. I'm old enough and cynical enough to know we cannot live in a world like this. But, I find a great mental release in imagining the Wonder Pets world.
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We too LOVE the Wonder Pets at our house. They are SO cute and polite!! What I've discovered is; if I begin singing the "teamwork" song my twin daughters are more likely to stop their current argument, it has become our anthem for picking up their messes, it is amazing how fast they can clean up while singing! For me having a cordless phone plus trying to keep up with two 4 year olds, means we rarely know where the phone is. So when all else fails, I'll push the page button, and my daughters will begin singing... "The phone, the phone is ringing..." it is pretty entertaining! Wonder Pet fans in MN - Jenn
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