I have fallen down this rabbit hole

... and I don't expect to be coming out for a while.

The show does have its flaws (there are certain aspects of the premise that I'm afraid the creators haven't really thought through completely) but I am totally loving it anyway. It's like popcorn.

(And I have a new appreciation for Doug's gray shawl-collar cardigan.)

My child doesn't watch television. Technically.

We do have a TV. It only gets used to watch movies. We got really lousy reception at our last two places, so when we moved here we just never bothered to hook up the antenna.

This is actually no great virtuous thing, because, while we may not have cable TV, we do have cable internet.

So Kate is in no danger of being deprived of any childhood icon, with sites like:

NickJr.com
PBSkids.org
Playhouse Disney

(There was a Noggin.com too, but they just recently merged with NickJr.)

Who needs TV?

A couple of months ago Kate sat down and drew (horror of horrors) the characters from Yo Gabba Gabba.






On a slightly more cultural note, she also drew this sequence from Disney's The Whale Who Wanted to Sing at the Met.




That's Willie the Whale as Mephistopheles, with the horns and flames. I was impressed with this one. She picked out some good details. And she's just recently started using color more.

One advantage to not watching actual TV is that we don't get subjected to quite as many commercials. Although that doesn't always work, either--Kate recently watched a bunch of toy commercials on youtube. Oh boy.