My Little Einstein

Adam loves the cartoon Little Einsteins. It's been on for only a few months but we've seen every episode several times. It's by the creators of Baby Einstein, which we used to abuse often. Adam particularly loved Baby Mozart and would watch the thing over and over and over and over. I guess the makers of the Baby Einstein series decided to capitalize on their popularity with parents who, no doubt, think they are doing something good for their kids by letting them watch something with the name "Einstein" in it.

It's true, the name does have some appeal to me. "If I let Adam watch this, he too will grasp the concept laws of physics", I reason. Little Einsteins is a cute cartoon, though. The four characters go on little adventures and introduce children to famous paintings and classical music and it is, visually, a pretty cartoon.

A few weeks ago Adam started calling his Little People by the names of the Little Einsteins. The funny thing is, they do kind of resemble the Einsteins (except for June as you will see). Then he decided that they needed to go everywhere with him. And if one was missing we had to find it. If I couldn't find it, I had to concoct a story about where that particular Einstein went. They went in the bath with him, had to be dried off like him, and even had to be covered up in their own blanket when they went to bed with him.

Here are Adam's Einsteins. From left to right: Leo, Annie, June, and Quincy.


Here are the actual Little Einsteins. You can probably work out who is who, although June is actually a little brunette girl and not a man with a helmet.