"Aidan turn the Wheel!"

Have you seen Dora the Explorer? If you've missed it, you should come by the house sometime and catch an episode or twelve. Aidan loves it.

In an episode we saw a week or two ago, a collection of characters aboard a sailboat doomed to crash on the rocks implore Isa, a smallish, Kimoto Dragon lizard-looking character who just happens to be standing at the wheel of the boat, to "Turn the wheel, Isa!"

Isa manages to avert disaster no fewer than three times in this manner-- each time, waiting for her friends to complete two full verses of their repetitive (and thoroughly catchy) little ditty before turning the wheel and steering the ship clear of the rocks (and very scary looking waterfall!), all the while singing her minimalist responsorial "I'm turning the wheel! I'm turning the wheel!"

Fast forward to today, when Mama overheard Aidan singing

"Aidan turn the wheel,
Turn the wheel, Aidan!
Aidan turn the wheel,
Turn the wheel, Aidan!"

Genius.