We decided that we needed to diversify Leila's TV watching when she started calling Edward 'George' and so downloaded some old Winnie the Pooh episodes to watch. We let Leila watch TV when Edward goes for his sleepy time - it's a really needed tool to let me put Edward down and she doesn't usually get too demanding at other times for TV as she knows it is a sleepy time treat (although sometimes she gets demanding about Edward needing a sleepy time!)
So suddenly Leila is obsessed with Winnie the Pooh! This has coincided with us discovering that she has a CD and story book that she can read along to too. She soon found a ted that she nicknamed Pooh and we started playing the 'Pooh game' by recreating parts of the story. Her favourite part is when Pooh gets stuck in Rabbit's door and everyone tries to pull him out (her mind was temporarily blown when I pointed out the Chew/Chrisolo Robin depiction of this by Jim Jeroo on her bedroom wall) - so we have now spent a lot of time marching around a box with a whole cut out of it (representing Rabbit's door), with Pooh in the hole and then we all rush to try and pull him out. At first we would swap between roles and all the characters were interchangeable, but after a few days Leila has been Christopher Robin every time.
And she even introduces herself as Christopher Robin, wants us to call her this name at tea time, says that she is a boy etcetc. This has been going on so much that it feels like she has been saying it forever, but I am sure it's less than a week. In a way it is exciting to see her imagination at work, but of course we're now worried that we need to wean her off Winnie the Pooh!
The upside of her obsession is that we think it has helped her learn to swing! Christopher Robin swings away on a swing on the tree branch in the opening credits and Leila can now balance and swing herself (she was nowhere near this a month ago) - really kicking her legs forward and back and using her arms too. It's amazing to watch and think she is not yet 3 years old.
So suddenly Leila is obsessed with Winnie the Pooh! This has coincided with us discovering that she has a CD and story book that she can read along to too. She soon found a ted that she nicknamed Pooh and we started playing the 'Pooh game' by recreating parts of the story. Her favourite part is when Pooh gets stuck in Rabbit's door and everyone tries to pull him out (her mind was temporarily blown when I pointed out the Chew/Chrisolo Robin depiction of this by Jim Jeroo on her bedroom wall) - so we have now spent a lot of time marching around a box with a whole cut out of it (representing Rabbit's door), with Pooh in the hole and then we all rush to try and pull him out. At first we would swap between roles and all the characters were interchangeable, but after a few days Leila has been Christopher Robin every time.
And she even introduces herself as Christopher Robin, wants us to call her this name at tea time, says that she is a boy etcetc. This has been going on so much that it feels like she has been saying it forever, but I am sure it's less than a week. In a way it is exciting to see her imagination at work, but of course we're now worried that we need to wean her off Winnie the Pooh!
The upside of her obsession is that we think it has helped her learn to swing! Christopher Robin swings away on a swing on the tree branch in the opening credits and Leila can now balance and swing herself (she was nowhere near this a month ago) - really kicking her legs forward and back and using her arms too. It's amazing to watch and think she is not yet 3 years old.
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