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Elizabeth isn’t much of a TV watcher. She’s in love with Elmo (Melmo) and has a bunch of Elmo toys, but has never seen the show. I keep meaning to Tivo an episode of Sesame Street, but it never seems to happen. I figure it’s a slippery slope. Once she realizes that they make TV for kids, she’ll demand to watch TV. By the way, this same rule applies to bubble gum machines and rides outside of the grocery store. The longer I can prevent her from knowing that it’s something more than just to look at, the less likely I’ll have to drag her kicking and screaming from the grocery store. Anyhow, we’ve all heard that TV rots your brain, so I figured that it would be best to avoid it during her first two years of life when her brain is growing more rapidly than it ever will again.

Elizabeth will happily do her own thing while I’m watching a show, that is until she caught sight of the Olympic Opening Ceremony. She crawled up in my lap and sat there for 10 minutes watching the show. When it came to the parade of nations, it would go something like this: a group of athletes would appear behind the sign for their country, the announcers would say, for example, China! (French pronunciation), China! (English pronunciation), China! (Italian pronunciation) and Elizabeth would say Ni-na! (Elizabeth pronunciation). It went on like this for several countries. This does not end her participation in the 2006 Olympics. She also spent a lot of time cheering for downhill skiers and snowboarders(”Yayy!! Wheeee!!”). When we were watching the pairs figure skating she started gesturing to me, and I finally realized that she wanted me to pick her up and twirl her around like they were doing on TV. We spent a while perfecting our spins. and I think she may be ready for the 2022 Winter Games.