Sawa loves cell-phone videos. She never tires of videos of herself playing with Sophie-Clare or with her cousins. We recently introduced Sawa to nature videos. She loves them too, and it's a great way to keep her still while I blow-dry her hair.
We were briefly terrorized by constant demands for Zou-san (Mr Elephant). Then I found she loves snakes and sharks. Apparently these fears are learned.
Sawa enjoys choosing the next video from the thumbnail images. Recently we did snakes and birds. She chooses very quickly and according to mysterious criteria. (These images were all chosen by Sawa from the BBC animal video archive.)
The documentary Babies by French director Thomas Balmès had her in a trance and she's been demanding it ever since. The BBC Neanderthal video that featured cave floors, not so much. Sometimes she laughs, including at a charmed snake that kept lunging for its handler's knee, and at a colony of hopping puffins on the Farne Islands. Sometimes we have arguments, like when she insisted that seals are dogs, and that black vultures are elephants. She wins, of course.
