KDUNK

Dear Lili,

For some reason you have fallen in love with the world’s most boring animated television show on planet earth – Bob The Builder. It pains me to watch (no offense to the creators) the few episodes I’ve seen. None of which are on actual TV any more and instead are found on You Tube as far as I know.

Here is a little taste of the excitement from the show synopsis:

“Bob The Builder follows the adventures of Bob and his lovable gang of friends and machines ­ Scoop (a scooper), Muck (a dump truck), Lofty (a crane), Dizzy (a cement mixer), and Roley (a steam roller) ­ as they work together to solve problems.”

Don’t feel bad. I nodded off by the second line too.

So how did you come to hear of this show? Sure ok. It’s my fault. I was in a used bookstore searching for books in Spanish seeing as we are all trying to learn. And there it was. In the ‘take this book no one wants it’ 25 cents pile. When is the last time you bought something for 25 cents? That’s right. Never. And this is why.

The book was shaped like a hammer. Perfect for your little hands. A quick glance revealed some cute animation and it was off to the cashier.

When I got home you were so happy to see this book. You said, “mas mas mas” wanting me to read it over and over again. The only problem that became quite clear quite fast was this book was not written in baby Spanish not to mention – TOTALLY BORING. It was full of complicated vocabs for words I’ve never heard of in English much less Spanish – all having to do with construction and tools.

Then…I attempted to hide the book. Sure. That is mean of me but I couldn’t deal – I’m sorry. But no matter where I hid the book you found it and would come running at me clutching the book with eyes wide saying “mas mas mas” which made me cave each and every time.

Well then tonight…we were playing with Play Dough. And you had a plastic tube and stuck a long piece of clay on the end that sort of flopped off the sides. Without saying anything to you I said to myself, “Wow – that looks just like a hammer”. Two seconds later you started to sing the Bob The Builder construction theme song:

Bob bee dee doo ….Bob bee dee doo

(Bob the builder….Bob the builder)

So here you are little darling. My little construction obsessed toddler. I look forward to discussing with you some big ideas I have for our apartment. So get those tools ready.

xo