Barney Addiction

Elijah is now 2 years and 5 months old. He has not paid much attention to TV until about a month ago. He watched Pooh and Tigger with my aunt once a day on Dish. Then my husband bought him a Barney DVD. Why? You may ask. Well I asked the same thing. The DVD was about Animal ABC's and my husband is all about flash cards and reading. (especially since our oldest son has a hard time at it, we are like super prepping Elijah but that is another entry) Anyway, Elijah now has three barney DVDs because you can get them for under $6 and he earns money potty training from my Grandmother. Elijah has said that "he pees for money." It is the truth. He earns money to put in a jar and when he saves enough he gets a prize. You might think this is a odd strategy put it works for us. He is only wearing pull ups at night and if I would cut out the bedtime sippy. We could be fully trained.

Barney goes round and round....My sister is ten years younger than me. So 1992 was my first round of Barney. The second round with Zeke was not nearly as severe as Elijah's current third round. He is in love with Barney, Baby Bop and BJ. He zones in and begs for Barney. Last night he said, Mommy you no let me watch Barney you not my friend. ( He was rewarded with a video after playing outside and eating most of his dinner) I told him that Barney likes it when we are nice and telling mommy that your not my friend is not nice. (rationalizing always gets me in trouble) He said "Barney my friend that's nice." Well the story goes on but check out the picture of Elijah vegged out watching Barney.