Quality Time

The 60 or 90 minutes between Julia's bath and her bedtime is usually wonderful. It's my chance to be alone with her, since her sister is in bed and her mom can go off and do other stuff. More often than not, we end up reading books and/or engaging in some sort of imaginary play (reading a Pooh story invariably leads to an elaborate round of acting out everything in the story), but we also spend about one evening every week doing "craft projects" (i.e., using way more glue than is really necessary and/or using scissors on everything we can) and about the same looking at her or her sister's photo albums. All fun things to do.


Lately, Julia has wanted to watch videos on the computer. Usually this means Sesame Street or even the Tigger song, but tonight it meant hunting down nativity scenes - a topic in which she is feverishly interested. So away we went to Google (which I think might as well be God) and good god there's a lot of nativity-scene videos on You Tube. We ended up watching this one several times, and each time the little glitch at 3:00 raised some questions - though on the other hand she was very impressed by the angel SFX.



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