Look on video

It's just another sign of the era Eli is growing up in. He knows what texting is. Doesn't know why some phones have cords. And thinks the Internet has all the answers.

When we are reading books, he asks us what some of the animals say. If we don't know, he says, "Look on video." If he wants to find out the name of a Sesame Street character, he says, "Look on video." If he wants to know how to do something, like cook, he says, "Look on video."

The scary thing is that the video, presumably YouTube, preempts his parents' knowledge. He asked me what a rabbit says. I told him rabbits don't say anything — they are quiet. He looked at me skeptically and said, "Look on video." I insisted that I knew. I told him that I had a rabbit when I was a kid. He furrowed his brow. "Look on video," was all he could say.

Rated R

Several days ago Michael and I were scrolling through some old videos of Eli, marveling at the ability of parents to utterly forget what their children were like just a mere 4 or 6 months earlier, when we noticed that we couldn't play the "Eli eats his toes, June 1, 2008" video. Eli happens to be in his bathtub naked during the video and I am worried that YouTube took it down because of the nudity. And I can't decide whether I am outraged at YouTube for being so ridiculous about a naked baby or sickened by the thought that YouTube has those kinds of rules because of creepy people out there searching for such videos....