We have a really big obsession going on in our house.  It’s come and gone in phases over the last six years, but right now it is going FULL FORCE.  And it’s taken over our living room.

Welcome to to Dora’s house.  In it you will find Miss A and Miss E (Miss I is busy in the kitchen drinking from her Dora cup).  They are fabulously attired in….

their Dora nightgowns.  Aren’t they great?  All shimmery and everything. It’s so awesome to be hanging out with Dora.

What do we do when we hang out with Dora?

Watch Dora of course.  And we must have our best pal right there at all times.

Isn’t Dora just the coolest girl you’ve ever known?

And the best part….it doesn’t end at bedtime.  No way!

The next morning we can start our day with….

a thrilling game of Dora memory.  Isn’t that the best!

Seriously, I have to love Dora, because if I didn’t I would kill myself.  These little girls would choose Dora over mommy any day.  Poor Miss I has even started saying “dora”…you know it’s bad when she only has about five words and that’s one of them.

So I just have to focus on the positive aspects of Dora.

1. Excellent exposure to spanish; very handy with all of our neighbors.

2. I will take a Dora obsession ANY DAY over .02 seconds of Hannah Montana.

3. Dora helps me remember…….
when Miss A was two and not yet talking, like not a single word, she loved Dora.  And I remember watching it with her (because that’s what you do when you only have one child, you watch their shows with them) and I would try SO HARD to get her to respond in some way, any way to one of Dora’s little interactive questions.  But of course, nothing.

Fast forward four years, and you have last night, when Dora cheerfully asks, while bobbing that giant head of hers “What was your favorite part?”.  And I hear Miss A from inside the tent…”My favorite part was finding the birds on enchanted mountain!”

And I have to pause, and be thankful for Dora, for reminding me how far we’ve come.

For more thankful thoughts (some real, some not really) go aqui