Lest you think this obsession with duckies is mine: the blame for ducks scattered around belong to my fourteen month old son. He is fond of duckies. He is VERY fond of duckies. Okay... he is obsessed with duckies. How that happened, I do not know. One day, after a bath, he didn't want to let go of his rubber duckie. Probably he thought it was something fun to chew on.
Well, that one duckie turned into three duckies. Then there were duckies on his birthday cake.... and from there on a whole ducky empire started to build. My fourteen month old son who never wanted anything to do with any of the stuffed animals that were bought for him, went to bed with a stuffed duck today.
We noticed that his fondness for ducks started to become larger than life when in every single book he could spot a duck from a mile away. In Maisy takes a bath, the duck drifting in the bathtub became Joseph's main character. He even fills out the sentence: "Maisy takes a bath with .... 'duh'.
Things really got out of hand though when mommy remembered a cartoon character from the Netherlands and decided to show it to Joseph. By now I know the begin tune of "Alfred Jodocus Kwak" in three languages and am blackmailed into showing it three times a day on the computer. During our thanksgiving trip, Joseph rushed through every person in the airport that had a laptop to call out excitedly: "Duh, Duh" in the hope that they would show him the video. Even computerised cash registers are seen as potential duck - deliverers. And I would have never in my life thought that I would have occasion to invent a word like 'duck deliverers".
Anyhow, to allow you all to share in the duck enduced madness, here is the English version of Alfred Jodocus Kwak, aka, my sons obsession.
3 comments:
LOL! It's always so fun to see what their first obsession will be!! And at least your toddler son is asking people to play movies for him when he points as computer screens, mine points and says "Mama!", so closely am I identified as part of my computer apparently.
There is another movie addition you need- the Veggietales that's King George and His Ducky.
Too cute!
Not trying to add to the obesession, not really. But there was an American cartoon called Duck Tales. With Scrooge MacDuck, Huey, Dooey and Looey. He may enjoy that. I know I always did. Oh, I can still sing the theme song!
Ooh! Alfred Jodocus Kwak!
It scared the living daylights out of me when I was a kid, at least, the beginning where Alfred's family is killed.
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