Gracious goodness.

[rivka]

We were goofing around at lunch, substituting different nouns into the song "Everybody wants to be a cat." Everybody wants to be an Alex, a dog, a giraffe, a Mama, et cetera.

Then Alex said: "Everybody wants to be a pachycephalosaurus."

Swear. To. God.



(I'll do a real update soon, I promise. Everything has just been crazy busy.)

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[wilfulcait.livejournal.com]

And she's right, of course!

What a fantastic, fun kid.

[mactavish.livejournal.com]

That's one of my favorite Disney songs/movies. And cute adding the dino. :)

[rivka.livejournal.com]

I've never seen the movie. We have a few VHS tapes of "Disney Sing-Along Songs," which are collections of songs from Disney movies and TV shows. At this age, I think Alex is way too young for the plot content, and the violence/scariness, of most Disney movies - not to mention that I don't want her watching TV for a straight 90 minutes.

So the 30-minute song collections are great, even if they mean that Alex busts out singing about "Cinderelly" without having the slightest idea of who she's talking about.

[kuangning]

Heee. My Logan has been outdone. Good for Alex! I was tickled with Logan's "felis domesticus." :)

[melebeth]

I want one. Really really want one. Just like yours.

[redbird]

Is recognizing dinosaurs and how cool they are one of the formal developmental markers yet?

[threeringedmoon.livejournal.com]

Do you think she will grow up to be a paleontologist?

[rivka.livejournal.com]

If all toddlers with a dinosaur obsession grew up to be paleonologists, there wouldn't be an un-dug square inch anywhere on earth. But I've got my eye on the internship listings for the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History, just in case. ;-)

[wcg.livejournal.com]

Good for her!

[naomikritzer]

Does she have "Ten Little Dinosaurs"? "Ten little dinosaurs, jumping on a bed...pachycephalosaurus fell off and bumped his head..." (If she doesn't, I bet it would be right up her alley.)

[rivka.livejournal.com]

She doesn't! But her birthday is coming up next month. Thanks for the suggestion - we've mostly been checking dinosaur things out of the library.

Right now the popular dinosaur books at our house are Harry and the Dinosaurs Say "Raahh!" (http://www.amazon.com/Harry-Dinosaurs-Say-Raahh/dp/0375825428/ref=pd_bbs_sr_5/002-7140095-4993650?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1174271103&sr=8-5"), Gigantic! (http://www.amazon.com/Gigantic-Patrick-OBrien/dp/0805068996/ref=sr_1_1/002-7140095-4993650?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1174271303&sr=1-1), and the Jane Yolen series (http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_b/002-7140095-4993650?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=yolen+dinosaurs). (How Do Dinosaurs Eat Their Food? How Do Dinosaurs Say Goodnight? How Do Dinosaurs Get Well Soon?, ad nauseam. My First Dinosaur Board Book (http://www.amazon.com/First-Dinosaur-Board-Book-Books/dp/0756602815/ref=sr_1_1/002-7140095-4993650?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1174271259&sr=1-1) has had great longevity too, though.

[naomikritzer]

It has built-in rolly eyeballs that belong to each dinosaur in turn.

You can also buy it in a set with dinosaur finger puppets plus one scientist finger puppet.

And it's hilarious.

[jonquil.livejournal.com]

Awwwww.

[mcduff.livejournal.com]

The hell? I can't even pronounce that. Your infant is smarter than me!

[telerib.livejournal.com]

Pachycephalosaurus is one I don't even remember from my dino days, but this is the second time I've seen it recently - first time was a punchline to a "Reader's Digest" anecdote.

Woman to toddler: My name is Ellen. Can you say 'Ellen'?

Toddler: Ellen. Can you say 'pachycephalosaurus'?

Must be the new cool, in-dinosaur for today's generation. :)

[rivka.livejournal.com]

I don't think pachycephalosaurus was even around in our dinosaur days. It looks like the fossil evidence of them is pretty sparse. Another of Alex's favorites is parasaurolophus, which I don't remember either. But I was never a huge dinosaur fan.

What keeps tripping me up is the fact that brontosaurus doesn't exist anymore. I stumble over "apatosaurus" every time.

[bosssio.livejournal.com]

heh, go Alex! I cannot pronounce it either.

Anthony has been running around, alternating between being a garbage truck, a metro train, and a dimetrodon (when he is not being mommy or daddy, of course).

They are doing dinosaurs at preschool this week - big hit. The other day when I was cooping, Ant was a dinosaur garbage truck man, emptying Permian era garbage, I suspose.

[rivka.livejournal.com]

Ant was a dinosaur garbage truck man

*dies of the cute and is dead*

[gtrout.livejournal.com]

Well, and who can argue with that?

[kalmn.livejournal.com]

holy. shit.

i can pronounce that, but only because i've practiced saying anoxic encephalopathy. whoa.