Things That Build & Things That Go = GOOD!
I’m raising a transportation afficionado. It was a given that he would like fire trucks since we’re constantly visiting FireDad at the Fire Department. But if it goes, this kid is all about it. Trains, boats, trucks, cars, bikes, clouds. He also likes the things that vehicles use to travel on. Water. Roads. Bridges. “Clouds” (you know, airplanes fly on clouds!). That’s why I wasn’t all that surprised when he couldn’t peel himself away from Bob the Builder: On-Site – Roads and Bridges
He had never watched Bob the Builder prior to sitting down with me to watch this DVD. But the footage of really big machines made him run to his room, grab a “digger” and come back to fix our living room floor into a road. Of course, I then had to read our whole library of big machine books immediately after we were done watching the show together but, hey, I’m all about the books so I didn’t mind all that much!
I had no idea that this movie was going to become one of his favorites but it has! Now that he’s seen it a few times, he sits and names off the machines while making any number of sounds from his arsenal of personal sound effects. I was amused as we traveled to the next city over and he started telling me, in mixed legitimate terms and two-year-old mumbo-jumbo, how to make a road. Since I had watched it with him, I offered up some of the right prompts and he was the happiest he has been in the car for a long time as we talked about building roads.
This movie gets a two thumbs up rating from BigBrother and from FireMom. (As in, it doesn’t annoy the bejeebus out of me like some kid films do!) If you have a Bob the Builder fan or just a transportation guru, grab this one!
Many thanks to the Parent Bloggers Network for the DVD to review. Read more of what others are saying about this one!
