"Yum yum yum yum yum, ¡delicioso!"

So it happened. Thompson has been sucked into the alluring vortex of cartoons namely Dora and Diego. Our house is filled with chants of "Diedo!" and "D-D-Dora!" Like all parents who've been ambushed while innocently picking a few things for the house at Walmart and  had to succumb to the no doubt money churning industry of endless aisles of children's merchandise and buy all things Dora and Diego, from toothbrushes to Cd's, amidst the screaming, pointing demanding and downright threats to jump off the cart by our cartoon crazed toddlers once they see a brightly packaged noisy toy! Our television privileges have come a far second to Thompson's constant demands to watch the same episodes of Diego's Underwater Adventures over and over again.When  he's not watching that he's busy sneaking around as Swiper the Fox  hunched over while clicking  his fingers and screaming "Oh, maat!" ( Tom's gibberish version of Swiper's popular phrase "Oh, man!") Really at this point of his obsession I won't be surprised if Tom doesn't grow up to direct a Dora musical. One good thing about his shows though, is that they  are helping Tom to build  his vocabulary and apply some of the words to his everyday life. We usually have to fight and fuss over meal and snack-times but today i noticed Tom happily feeding himself his yogurt and declaring, "Yum yum yum yum! deyishioso!" with every spoonful. No doubt a chant from Dora's magical  Backpack.