Iggle Piggle Iggle Onk...

[ouryve]

I'm about to unashamedly (and without any apologies for the gibberish in the next paragraph) express big In The Night Garden love.

This is DS2's (1.11, in the system being evaluated for ASD) big obsession, it seems. He absolutely adores it. He's recently started to gesture and attempt actions to the songs in it, too. He "knocks on the door" to the tombliboo rhyme (and thinks it's funny when I put his name in place of the "tombli" bit) and I've seen him patting his belly with Makka Pakka and running round the room with his hands by his side and even putting his hands to his mouth and pulling them away again, quickly, as if he's blowing kisses when he sees Upsy Daisy.

I bought him a beautiful ITNG book for Christmas hoping it would inspire him to look at books and not just turn away and it did the trick. He now brings me books and puts them in my hand. I now have the problem of gently tuning him away when I'm changing one of DS1's less fragrant nappies!

I'm just glad I seem to have found his magic key. I'm too old to understand the show, but it's obviously a piece of genius!

Pip pip onk onk!!!

Ds1 loves this programme as well.

I was totally scratching my head the first few times I saw it, because nothing ever seemed to happen. The repetitive element seems to be what both my boys love, though. DS2 has me saying the rhymes pretty much all day and I have to try to resist saying something like "Agga pang!" to him out in public, because I'd probably get some very bewildered looks.

ds1 (almost 9, autistic) loves ITNG too.

I think it is so good because it does not pretend to be educational at all. You can watch a documentary on BBC website (I think) which explains the thinking behind it. DP is slightly techy [yawn emoticon] and when DD first watched it he looked up all he could

Personally I prefer watching the show with DD - we do the Macca Pacca dance together

One strange thing I learnt was that it is made by the people who did Teletubbies. DD calls TTs Macca Paccas.

My DS is sort of getting into it but Teletubbies was a big break through for him. He learned loads of words from them - however impossible that might sound.

Completely irrevelant factoid alert**

DH worked with a woman who designed/made the tellytubby costumes.

He was most excited to come home and tell me when he found it out a few years ago.

As you can imagine, he is easily impressed.

I'm glad I'm not alone in my love, then!

CMOC: I saw the BBC documentary and also a big interview in the Telegraph (iirc). I know there's a lot of trickery involved in getting the characters the right relative sizes and speeding up their action and stuff. It still amuses me when the scaling is so obviously out, like when Makka Pakka washes the Pontipines, mind. I'm waiting for DS1 to notice that and complain!

Cyberseraphim: DS1 learnt loads of words form the teletubbies. When he was about 15 months, he had a Teletubby spoon and used to shout "tickywim dissy yaya po!" when he had it and try to sing the theme song. He was fascinated by all the counting films and his favourite episode is still the one with the giant pink number 4 in it!

cyber - DS learned the weather words from the TTs weather video!

We've done the teletubbies (DS1 10yo) the tweenies and fimbles (DS2 6yo) and In the Night Garden with DS3 1.11 and I can confidently say that INTG is the best. We all love it.

DS3 (3.8, ASD) adores ITNG too. He can say "Ni' Nonk" and "Up a Daisy". And he was trying to push his bed around like Upsy Daisy the other night. Which made me .

Ourvye- ds3 is 4.5 and also in the system, even before he could talk to poeple he could sing the night garden songs on command LOL- he does have language now (on fiorst eprcentile both types), the books were a great way to get him to engage as well.

his obsession has moved on now to the PC but ITNG toys and books remain a favourite and have amde huge differences to him

My DS's favourite comment when things go wrong - juice is spilled or a toy train is de railed, is 'Disas!' (Short for Disaster!) . He learned this from the bit in Teletubbies where TinkyWinky changes direction suddenly and knocks all the other Teleubbies over. We said the word Disaster and liked the sound of the word. If we suggest a hair cut or a hair cut, he runs away shouting 'Disas! Disas!'

Peachy - DS1, 4.4 loves ITNG almost as much as his little brother. I think he admires Makka Pakka and his neatness with his stones.

We had one of those "wish I had a hidden camera" moments, yesterday when DS1 picked up DS2's Songs from the Night Garden book and "read" each page in my accent (very different from DH's), using my intonation, but filling in with jargon where he hadn't quite understood the words. DS2 was quite amused and puzzled.

I adore In The Night Garden. I had a praise thread for it a while ago. Think that was a different incarnation tho. DS (SN age 7) loves it to distraction. But the thread was about MY love for it! I want to LIVE there.. it looks so restful.

DS has books, dvds, and two plush figures of Iggle Piggle and Upsy Daisy that were bought for him for Christmas. In the week he had a tooth out under sedation and because he was a brave boy I went out to buy him a Makka Pakka and couldn't believe the inflated prices! I had to pay £5.99 for a little one the size of my hand.. in fact smaller!

The toys on the shelf where a good few quid dearer than similarly sized ones next to them (Fifi etc). Talk about cashing in on what's popular!

Hah, It does look peaceful, though the public transport sucks!

LOL at last comment from ouryve! The public transport is bit dangerous looking isn't it?! Just dropping by to say my , 13 mnths loves this programme too, he has makka pakka toy, iggle piggle toy, the ninky nonk and a ITNG book, he is a severe epileptic and just glad he gets some enjoyment from watching this lovely programme( I quite like it myself)