Tom and Jerry

So I should probably be working on my classes but I couldn't pass up the opportunity to talk about life at the rugrat-filled house. Kaelen has learned that he absolutely loves Tom and Jerry. In fact, I have seen more Tom and Jerry in the last two weeks then I have in my life-time. This is probably especially true becaues Kaelen has been sick the last couple of days and so has spent a lot of time just laying on the couch. Now those of you who know Kaelen know this is a once-in-a-lifetime thing and so we snuggled for a long time on those days. Well Kaelen has learned certain things from Tom and Jerry. He has learned that the lion roars at the beginning of every episode and he roars right along with it (complete with the lion head roll). He knows the difference between Tom and Jerry and commercials and he doesn't like commercials. Well yesterday or the day before we were watching an episode that had the Musketeers in it. It was called Touche, Pussy Cat! Anyway, Nibbles ends up having to hand delivery Jerry's love letters and of course has to fight off the evil Tom on his way to and from the girl's house. Every time he meets Tom he yells, "On guard!" So the other day, Kaelen looks at me and starts saying, "On guard, on guard, on guard!" I am so glad that he is being exposed to such great values! But he is so cute as he yells "On guard!" at you.

I also have to say that after seeing so many Tom and Jerry episodes that I am starting to get favorites. My favorite is called "Downhearted Duckling." This is one about a duck who reads the story of the Ugly Duckling and never makes it to the part where the duckling was actually a swan. So the duck is convinced that he is an ugly duckling and he just wants to die. He keeps going up to Tom and saying "Will you please eat me?" (As a side note: Melissa and I both love the voice of the duck so props to whoever does it!) So Jerry spends the episode trying to convince the duck that he is pretty and helping him with beauty tips. And the duck keeps thinking that he is super ugly and puts himself in a pie for Tom to eat and into a sandwich and things like that. Tom is very willing to eat the duck but gets a little weary after Jerry keeps rescuing the duck. At one point Jerry is reading a beauty tip book and has curlers in the duck's hair, and a mud mask on, and a corset on and looks like a girl does on a Friday night girl's night. (Definitely one of those nights where no pictures are taken!) Anyway, Tom comes and steals the duck and opens the bag and finds this Frankenstein looking duck and runs through the brick wall to run away. It gets bad enough that the duck starts to walk around with a bag over his head. The duck stays convinced that he is ugly until he meets another duck that tells him that he is cute. I love this reason for the 10-cow-wife theory behind it but I also wonder if that that is what would happen if the boys in our lives saw us in our mudmasks and curlers. I mean we do look a little Frankensteinish. That is okay I will still do them because I think it is worth it!

I must say that I look forward to many more Tom and Jerry moments with Mr. Kaelen. I think after I leave here though I won't be able to watch a Tom and Jerry episode without just breaking down and crying.