The Fresh Beat Band was on, distracting Hewson while the rest of the family got ready in the morning. Being lazy, older parents this time around, Nick Jr. is a babysitter at our house much too often, and is always part of our morning routine.
Mike watched the t.v. for a moment. "Didn't he have an English accent before?" I asked. Reid didn't not appear on the screen right away. Mike grabbed the remote and rewound the show to find Reid. He pushed play when I said, "There, that's him. Aren't they calling him Reid?"
Mike watched for a few minutes them answered, " Yea."
I replied, "Those are the type of clothes Reid wore aren't they?"
Mike murmured agreement and commented, " The hat is different."
"It is?" I questioned. We discussed the hat for a few moments. At some point our 13 year-old daughter had come into the room.I noticed her shaking her head.
"What?" I asked.
"Are you guys really discussing this?" she said.
This made me smile. This coming from the same girl who had been singing "I just want to go bananas, na-na, na-na, na let's go bananas..." the other morning in my classroom before school. A song frequently sung by The Fresh Beat Band.
Yes, we were discussing whether or not The Fresh Beat Band had a new actor playing a regular character. After all we spent almost every morning with them. Just as when she was about Hewson's age we discussed whether or not we liked Steve or Joe better on Blue's Clues,
We're parents and whether we like it or not, often our lives revolve around are kids. Deciding whether or not there was a new Reid was similar to me asking her who she liked better Jacob or Edward? (She's only seen the movies.) Or pointing out to Rilyn that his music had a definite country twang and having him explain it wasn't country, it was folksy and blue grassy. (A.J. said it was country folk from Utah County.) Whether their three, thirteen, or sixteen, I find myself discussing and pondering things that I mostly because I'm a parent.
Someday when she's a mother and I'm long past babies, I'll probably find myself researching or debating what to do to get a baby to sleep through the night. Not because I need to know, but because it will be important to her. Also, I'll get to smirk when she's discussing the latest preschool show. And a character change will warrant a discussion because she's spent so much time with the characters of the show.
Hewson just came in to asked to play Nick Jr on the computer. I said after I was done writing my story. Logically he wanted to know what the story was about. When I told him The Fresh Beat Band he started singing, "Friends give friends a hand..."
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