Every Saturday morning Jr. Picasso watches his toons. Since we don’t have cable this is the only day he can see Nick Jr. Cartoons. So we spend the morning watching Lazytown, Miss Spider, Backyardigans, Dora, Little Bill and Blues Clues. Baby Beethoven pretty much ignores the TV except when Backyardigans is on. I am not entirely sure what this program teaches kids but it has music and dancing toons; so you can see why Baby B is interested. I personally still haven’t figured out what the character “Uniquah” is – - she’s a pink polka-dotted something??

Lazytown is supposed to inspire kids to action (play). But my little couch potato is thus far not swayed by the bouncing active characters. He is content to sit on the couch and grow roots till the cartoons are over. Thankfully we have worked hard to curb our TV watching so its less of a fight to get the TV back off.

Now if we (the parents) could just manage the same discipline for ourselve when we pop the TV on. It seems to be rather difficult to turn it off after our show. The beckoning of the dishes and laundry just can’t seem to over come the comfy couch! LOL