She gets that evil part from me.

We are having a problem with the evil (but catchy) Backyardigaans DVDs that Grandma and Grandpa bought LM for X-mas (Gee, thanks guys.) We don't have a TV so she would watch them on our laptops and then after a while we couldn't have the stupid things out without the whining and begging and pointing with sounds that she assumes convey meaning.

So Husband and I went to Best Buy and got a portable DVD player (because the safety of my laptop was seriously undermined by all this Nick Jr. nonsense) and now she watches on that. This is all well and good (although even as I write this the machine is making some noise that I am pretty sure it isn't supposed to make - LM figured out how to open it and take the DVD out and play with the laser. You think she might be an engineer when she grows up?) but now I have to hide that from her if I don't want her watching it. I try to only let her watch it right before meals. That way when i turn it off, we are going to do something specific which she enjoys and there's not nearly as much throwing herself on the ground and screaming like I put her teddy in the garbage disposal.

However, now I have to hide the DVD's (as it is they are on the top shelf of her bookcase) because she has figured out what the cases look like and will just stand underneath the bookshelf and whine, "mem mem mem mem..." until I want to eat glass.

It's official. She's an evil genius sent to destroy me.