Like a cyclist I have to keep pedalling, to keep moving, in order not to fall down

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I visited the Million Year Picnic earlier tonight; I had just been discussing Avatar: The Last Airbender (2005–2008) and, being reminded of how much I loved that show, thought I would finally check out some of the comics. Sadly, I cannot afford to buy any of the complete arcs right now, especially not the nice hardcover editions. So I went to browse Raven Used Books to console myself and seem to have ended up with a biography of Wittgenstein.

This is my life.

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[kraada.livejournal.com]

I've been rewatching it with Addy. We're a dozen episodes in, and she's declared she wants to be a superhero when she grows up. And Zuko is her favorite.

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We're a dozen episodes in, and she's declared she wants to be a superhero when she grows up. And Zuko is her favorite.

Wonderful. How old is she now? I watched it the first time through with a four-year-old who also loved it. (Then I rewatched it with my mother, who felt the same way.)

[kraada.livejournal.com]

She's most of the way to 3. She definitely does not get everything, and she's started to show that suspenseful music evokes an emotional response which may be why she doesn't want to watch it all of the time. Figured that out for sure watching Wallace and Gromit yesterday (which she requested!).

Our current mix includes Avatar, Dora, Magic Schoolbus, Daniel Tiger, Word Girl and Peg + Cat. I try to steer her away from Dora though as we've seen all of the ones available on Prime and rewatching them is kinda painful. She doesn't really like old school Sesame Street, and I need to try Reading Rainbow and see how that goes over.

I swear we actually don't watch that much tv with her as it sounds like.

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Our current mix includes Avatar, Dora, Magic Schoolbus, Daniel Tiger, Word Girl and Peg + Cat.

I don't know those last three shows at all!

I swear we actually don't watch that much tv with her as it sounds like.

It's more TV than I watched as a kid. Sesame Street, The Electric Company, 3-2-1 Contact, Square One TV, Fraggle Rock, The Muppet Show, that's all I can remember. The Children's Television Workshop hit parade, basically.

[kraada.livejournal.com]

I haven't tried Fraggles in a couple of months so it's due up to try again. Square One is available in chunks on YouTube. It has not aged well.

Daniel Tiger is an animated imagining of what's going on in The Land of Make Believe (from Mr. Roger's Neighborhood), from the kids' perspective. So instead of King Friday we're hanging with Prince Wednesday and such. Word Girl is a PBS show about an alien superhero girl who defeats enemies with her powers of language. Peg + Cat is another new PBS show and is the story of a girl and her cat who have various problems they have to solve with math. The animation is notably fun as they fill in all backgrounds with graph paper.

Addy has also declared she's going to have a Magic Schoolbus birthday party this year.