Madison's Christmas Movies

     Though we're careful not to plop her down in front of the television and let it serve as our babysitter, we do let Madison sit and watch her Tinkerbell TV in the playroom from time to time.  This month, of course we've been plugging in Christmas-themed movies.  

     Her favorite as of late is a shocker for me:  it's an ancient Disney VHS (we have a VHS/DVD player).  This is a tape she insists on watching quite often - it's simply called "A Walt Disney Christmas."  This is a collection of cartoons that go back to the 1930's:  she'll sit and stare at it the whole time.  She cracks up loudly each time Pluto tries to go across the ice with skates on.  Uproarious belly laughs!

     Her other favorites include Mickey's Once Upon a Christmas and definitely the Twice Upon a Christmas (the skating scene is her favorite).  We have several more Christmas movies for her, and she seems to like them all so far.  A Very Playhouse Disney Holiday is a fun mix of cartoons featuring the Higglytown Heroes, which you can't go wrong with!  Mommy and Daddy liked the Higglytown heroes before Madison was even here.  In fact, Daddy had bought some of these nesting dolls for Mommy one Christmas, each one a different Higglytown Hero.  These aren't the kind you can play with, but we do have them stacked up on one of Madison's shelves in the playroom.

Tonight, she was getting into Hermie's A Fruitcake Christmas, which was completely unrealistic in that it features a fruitcake that everyone actually wants.  Seriously, it is a cute cartoon that teaches about greed, sharing and the Christmas spirit.  Speaking of which, we also have a William Wegman video called Fay's 12 Days of Christmas.  Now that's a fun video!  Wegman is the photographer who takes pictures of his dogs in various positions, usually dressing them up.  We have a few books by him, the coffee table kind.  Madison watched this one after Hermie and seemed to enjoy it.

Like I said, she doesn't sit and watch television all day.  She just watched these two videos tonight, and that was pretty much it for the television.  Mommy made sure she kept busy the rest of the day with different activities outside (while it wasn't raining) and inside (let's make some more Playdough spaghetti!).

It's just great to have that video to plug in from time to time.  It gives Mommy a mental break, and sometimes a chance to get some things done that perhaps can't be done otherwise.  These videos also get us all into the Christmas spirit, and we'll have to admit it:  they're also good when Mommy and Daddy are... dog tired!