This week on YouTube

Emmett started being interested in trains back when we first got to Boston, so Aunt Besty Pants was clever and found this video on YouTube, which he loved.  This opened up a whole new world of enertainment! Soon helicopters became an infatuation and so we started looking for helicopter videos and then this became a new favorite, and then these were pretty exciting, too.

Searching for helicopters one day with Lah (Aunt Laree) opened up a whole new can of worms when she discovered TuTiTu! He loved this one, which led to discovering other cartoons and other odd things.  It was funny watching him try to learn to say TuTiTu....it really was a tongue twister for him.  Now he's shortened it to what he can handle, calling it "Too Tee!"  We think this has kind of become the generic name for "let me watch YouTube!" and asks all the time for it.  This led to some other amazing videos such as tutorials on how to use/eat? Asian Candy and the even more famous "Kutsuwa-Aroma Beads making kit" (I wonder what it smells like).  He watched ones like this a bit, too.  And random things like this.  Seriously, 23 million hits?!??!  I know my kid watched it a few times, but really?!?  That many people have watched this?  why?  Then there's these train videos that he loved, but we tried to avoid at all costs.  For whatever reason, we found it extremely annoying.   

Whenever Micah's trying to get anything done on the computer, Emmett will sneak over and lean up against him like a cat and in a sweet voice say, "Dah-eee, too tee?!"  Micah has mastered how to balance watching a little show with Emmett and still being able to write emails or whatever.  He'll have two different windows open so they each take up half the screen so they both he and Emmett can do their own thing at the same time.  One morning in the hospital (a few months ago) as Emmett was tethered to an IV pole, Micah's trying to entertain Emmett and has him on his lap.  Dr. Kieran comes in on rounds and we have a serious  conversation about where we are medically and what they expect at Emmett's next MRI, etc....  Micah asks as this conversation is coming to a close, "What else can we do right now (implying getting Emmett to have the best MRI results)?"  Dr. Kieran answers "Get another laptop" and of course we start laughing. He sees exactly what's going on-how Emmett is slowly taking over the screen while Micah's trying to do some research and stuff.  Dr. Kieran has a great sense of humor and it comes out at random times.  Sometimes, we're not even sure if he's meaning to be funny, which usually makes us laugh even more.


Here's one that was another favorite for a week or so.  He's seen this one also a few times and it makes him laugh, as balloons are a favorite toy right now (we'll have to post that some other time).  Around his birthday, you'll remember this favorite.  In Michigan over Thanksgiving, he watched this video over and over and we all found it disgusting, plus I'm not sure what I think about the 'cook'.  He also kept watching candy apples, then found this one, but wouldn't ever watch it to the end and left us all hanging....I mean really, who isn't curious about how they make gum?!?  And what would a blog post be without mentioning his love for trucks-fake or real!  

Emmett will watch YouTube on his iPad, although I'm sure most of you are aware it's not really a great idea to have your kid have free access to YouTube.  You never know what movies will pop up afterwards, so we've closed it on the iPads usually.  This is how he loves to watch, though.  He taps on the video he wants to watch, which makes it full screen.  Then he pauses it, presses done so then it brings the viewing screen back to the smaller size, then he presses play again.  This is all done, because as you probably never cared about, but is VERY important to Emmett, is that watching on full screen blocks his favorite feature.  He loves the smaller screen because then there is a sidebar of lots of other videos that are similar to the one you're watching.  He loves to swipe through these while he's watching the chosen one at the moment.  It's really funny.  Emmett has so many peculiar and particular ways of doing things.  What's even funnier is that he's more familiar with an iPad than a laptop, so when he sees YouTube on a monitor, if you're not fast enough with the mouse, he will reach over and try to swipe the screen, to get the movies to scroll.  Micah made the mistake of showing him how to use a mouse this summer though and unfortunately, he picked that up pretty quickly, too. 

Anyways, hope you enjoy being in the spastic mind of a two year old and seeing what catches his attention!  It always makes me wonder what kinds of things he is thinking about!