Dora the Explorer

I think that Andrew has a crush on Dora the Explorer. I just don't know any better way to explain it. He has two dora movies, a dora coloring book, a dora reading book, and a dora lawn chair. They've been acquired over time, though we did buy one movie and the reading book at the same time. He picked out the reading book, and we we got him the movie because it was inexpensive and he was staring at it in the store.

Since then he has watched one of the movies repeatedly (which is great because they are good movies) and he just likes to sit and smile at Dora when she's on the screen. He loves to look at her image on the back of his chair, he loves to stare at her picture and look at her books. But that's not the most amusing part of Andrew's interest in Dora.

When we were in Arizona we went to a mall to a play area (it's hot in Arizona, and this may be obvious to some of you, but it's new to me). In the play area he saw a little girl with Dora shoes. He followed her all over the play area as she moved, and kept looking at her feet. He looked very strange doing this, but the little girl didn't seem to mind and no one tried to stop him, so it was pretty uneventful. She did give him a funny look when she sat down and he knelt down to stare at her Dora shoes though. :)

He also appears to have "fights" with Dora, and when he's angry for whatever reason, he won't interact with any of his Dora toys. It's quite an amusing sight honestly. :) And hey, she really is a cute little girl. I can see why he would like her so much. :)