Mesmerized by the Lion King
I am sitting here now, watching Lainey pitch the most insane little fit I have ever seen a person as tiny as her pitch. This is all new to me. A few weeks ago she only had a few emotions, now we see a few new ones come into bloom every couple days.
During her fits she poofs her cheeks out, her face turns red and she snorts, huffing and puffing in and out, over and over. Her big, inflated baby head on her tiny body reminds me of an angry looking Buddha. I have to do a quick Google image search and see if I can find a pic of one, if such a thing exists! IT DOES!
I have the day off today. It’s Friday which is normally the highlight of my week. Normally I would be having the time of my life but today was not a willing day off. I had to call out to cover for my sick baby sitter. Lainey refuses to eat, has decided she is too grouchy to nap and nothing is satisfying the little nerd. All she wants to do is grab the laptop, gnaw on the edges of it and smash the keys.
If only there was something I could do to passify her…wait! DISNEY! All kids love Disney movies. It’s universal. Even I love Disney movies, minus the really old boring ones with too much singing. I have been ripping kid’s movie to my PC since before Lainey was born. When most father’s learn they are having a kid they think about creating savings accounts for college or making room for a nursery; but my first though was, “I’m going to need more HDD storage, we have to borrow and steal every Disney movie we can get our hands on and we’re gonna have to run Ethernet to another part of the house so I can move my computer to another room.”
It’s a good thing I did all that preparation because it’s about to save me from insanity. I flick on my home theater PC and queue up the network folder where dozens of wonderful children’s movies live. Hmm…. What to watch.
“What do you want to watch Lainey?”
Lainey looks back at me, screams, cries some more then poofs her cheeks out at me.
“Lion King it is. Hakuna matata!”
And to my delight, the Disney effect immediately takes hold! From the instant those bold red letters spelling out “The Lion King” fill the black screen and the movie starts, Lainey is instantly glued to the TV. She rolls over in her walker and takes a front row seat for the show. Boy do I love this movie. I remember going to see it with my Aunt Tammy during the summer between 5th and 6th grade. That was 16 years ago and the movie has not aged a bit.
God, I am getting old.
August 23rd, 2009 at 8:32 pm
You should try Baby Einstein movies. My kids loved them from about 6 mos – 3+ years. And the nice thing is they are all mostly music (classical) and it is great background noise to work by.