Entertainment for All Ages

I'm hibernating for the winter. It's too cold here for me and the onset of winter every year pushes me into an ever-longer state of hibernation. When I first came to New York, I was trying to be brave and often walked around in negative-temperature-with-wind-chill situations wearing nothing but my work suit. One night, I walked from one end of Midtown to the other, literally the entire width of the island of Manhattan, wearing crepe pants and no overcoat. After I arrived home and saw how red raw my legs and hands were, I decided I must be out of my mind. Every year since then, I've acquired more and more winter supplies, but, ironically, have ventured outside less and less.

So, inside my warm home, I find entertainments for myself and my daughter. As you'd imagine, there's plenty of TV watching. But, there's also lots of puzzles, games of chase, snacking, pretend with toys, building a false sense of excitement about looking at the computer, etc. My daughter has made leaps in her development as a result of all this indoor entertainment. She can perfom all life's necessary tasks now: changing the channel, increasing the volume, turning the TV on and off and repeating just about anything she hears. And only 20 months old!

She can tell you the schedule of all her favorite cartoons and knows the shows you like, too. Hmmm, unless she's going to work for TV Guide...

I'm on the hunt for another mommy and me class to force me out the front door.