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Twin babies act out their favorite scene from "Frozen". [Facebook link, also available here]. Cuteness ensues.
It's like a little tiny Rocky Horror.
posted by jonmc at 8:02 AM on April 3, 2017 [12 favorites]
posted by jonmc at 8:02 AM on April 3, 2017 [12 favorites]
Those babies are amazing. It will be interesting to see what they grow into in the coming years. None of my kids would even imitate Dora when asked to do so.
posted by Orlop at 8:11 AM on April 3, 2017
posted by Orlop at 8:11 AM on April 3, 2017
That's super impressive! Those kids are, what, 18 months? Not even? My n=1 but my almost-5-year-old wouldn't be able to pull off that level of sustained mimicry with a partner. (Also, he's never been able to sit through more than like 10 minutes of a Disney movie and even pretend to care about it, so he may be, um, atypical.)
posted by soren_lorensen at 8:20 AM on April 3, 2017 [1 favorite]
posted by soren_lorensen at 8:20 AM on April 3, 2017 [1 favorite]
Super cute. But am I the only one who feels it's a little odd that kids so young have already seen any movie (let alone one with this guy) so many times they can act it out?
posted by gottabefunky at 8:50 AM on April 3, 2017 [7 favorites]
posted by gottabefunky at 8:50 AM on April 3, 2017 [7 favorites]
Super cute. But am I the only one who feels it's a little odd that kids so young have already seen any movie (let alone one with this guy) so many times they can act it out?
a) Kids' memories are fucking amazing. And kids love repetition.
b) Have twins yourself before you criticise a parent who obviously puts them in front of the TV sometimes so they have a chance to do, like, anything other than wrangling twin toddlers.
posted by EndsOfInvention at 9:06 AM on April 3, 2017 [12 favorites]
a) Kids' memories are fucking amazing. And kids love repetition.
b) Have twins yourself before you criticise a parent who obviously puts them in front of the TV sometimes so they have a chance to do, like, anything other than wrangling twin toddlers.
posted by EndsOfInvention at 9:06 AM on April 3, 2017 [12 favorites]
Kids *love* repetition. Any parent will tell you that a child would rather watch the same show or listen to the same book 7 times in a row rather than 7 new stories.
Wouldn't surprise me if their idea of "watching TV" is literally just "watching Frozen."
posted by explosion at 9:07 AM on April 3, 2017 [8 favorites]
Wouldn't surprise me if their idea of "watching TV" is literally just "watching Frozen."
posted by explosion at 9:07 AM on April 3, 2017 [8 favorites]
Now have Patton Oswalt and Michael Chiklis do it!
posted by AlonzoMosleyFBI at 9:08 AM on April 3, 2017 [1 favorite]
posted by AlonzoMosleyFBI at 9:08 AM on April 3, 2017 [1 favorite]
I am astonished by how clearly and accurately they imitating the movie at that age. Wow. My niece is 4 and she probably couldn't muster the attention span for that.
posted by jacquilynne at 9:18 AM on April 3, 2017
posted by jacquilynne at 9:18 AM on April 3, 2017
This is super adorable, but I just realized I have completely given up trying to figure out how old kids are. Mine had a full head of hair at about 5mo and everyone thought he was a year old. These kids look like they're eight months old to me, but they're clearly well past that. If you told me they were three, I'd be like, sure?
And kids love repetition.
posted by phooky at 9:35 AM on April 3, 2017
And kids love repetition.
posted by phooky at 9:35 AM on April 3, 2017
I'd rather watch this than that live action remake of Beauty and the Beast.
posted by Atom Eyes at 9:53 AM on April 3, 2017
posted by Atom Eyes at 9:53 AM on April 3, 2017
And kids love repetition.
posted by Naberius at 9:59 AM on April 3, 2017 [5 favorites]
posted by Naberius at 9:59 AM on April 3, 2017 [5 favorites]
Obligatory when discussing both Frozen and children's' love of repetition. (Because kids love repetition).
posted by Quindar Beep at 11:02 AM on April 3, 2017
posted by Quindar Beep at 11:02 AM on April 3, 2017
soren_lorensen: My n=1 but my almost-5-year-old wouldn't be able to pull off that level of sustained mimicry with a partner. (Also, he's never been able to sit through more than like 10 minutes of a Disney movie and even pretend to care about it, so he may be, um, atypical.)
Kids vary greatly. Our two boys can be content to watch a full movie, though younger brother is more likely to get up and run around mid-movie. Bigger brother had a friend over recently, and she declared that they needed a break mid-movie to get outside, which both boys enjoyed.
Bigger brother recently displayed his ability to identify instrumental songs, after telling us which songs was playing from the Moana soundtrack recently. Little brains are amazing.
posted by filthy light thief at 11:08 AM on April 3, 2017 [1 favorite]
Kids vary greatly. Our two boys can be content to watch a full movie, though younger brother is more likely to get up and run around mid-movie. Bigger brother had a friend over recently, and she declared that they needed a break mid-movie to get outside, which both boys enjoyed.
Bigger brother recently displayed his ability to identify instrumental songs, after telling us which songs was playing from the Moana soundtrack recently. Little brains are amazing.
posted by filthy light thief at 11:08 AM on April 3, 2017 [1 favorite]
These girls are 2. There is also a 5-month-old baby. (per the mom's Facebook)
posted by candyland at 11:09 AM on April 3, 2017
posted by candyland at 11:09 AM on April 3, 2017
I had an early walker, so that always skews my age-perception of toddlers. I always forget that really what I had for several months was not a toddler so much as a walking baby.
posted by soren_lorensen at 11:56 AM on April 3, 2017 [1 favorite]
posted by soren_lorensen at 11:56 AM on April 3, 2017 [1 favorite]
At 2, it surprises me that they keep the same role through the scene. Mint green sleeper suit plays Anna and the light sleeper suit plays Elsa. I wonder if they keep the same role every time or for every song? Did they talk about it and agree first?
posted by gladly at 12:53 PM on April 3, 2017 [3 favorites]
posted by gladly at 12:53 PM on April 3, 2017 [3 favorites]
"kids so young have already seen any movie (let alone one with this guy) "
Marshmallow is awesome, fight me.
We had to go on etsy and find someone to make a Marshmallow from scratch since my then-3-year-old loved Marshmallow SO. MUCH. (He's a born chaos muppet.)
posted by Eyebrows McGee at 6:37 PM on April 3, 2017
Marshmallow is awesome, fight me.
We had to go on etsy and find someone to make a Marshmallow from scratch since my then-3-year-old loved Marshmallow SO. MUCH. (He's a born chaos muppet.)
posted by Eyebrows McGee at 6:37 PM on April 3, 2017
I have twin girls about a year older than these girls and I can't even handle this. I'm just making shrieking noises and restraining my urge to type out my feelings in all caps.
posted by gerstle at 8:49 PM on April 3, 2017 [1 favorite]
posted by gerstle at 8:49 PM on April 3, 2017 [1 favorite]
They are adorable. I want them to reenact this in say 15 years.
And yes to kids love repetition. My sister's talents were more verbal than physical and she used to sit and recite every single word of the shows she loved. She would do so a few beats ahead of the actors so we knew she knew them all. It was like having a glitchy echo in the soundtrack.
posted by kitten magic at 4:33 AM on April 4, 2017
And yes to kids love repetition. My sister's talents were more verbal than physical and she used to sit and recite every single word of the shows she loved. She would do so a few beats ahead of the actors so we knew she knew them all. It was like having a glitchy echo in the soundtrack.
posted by kitten magic at 4:33 AM on April 4, 2017
Let me retell my favorite story about children learning.
One night, I was watching an old war movie on TV, the brave good guys were sailing into battle. About a half hour into it, Wee, my (at that time) 2 year old granddaughter, wandered into the living room and cuddled up to watch with me.
I got involved with the movie, when I heard Wee say, in the dramatic voice that only a two-year-old can muster, “Oh NO! MINES!”.
Onscreen, sure enough, the good guys were sailing into a minefield. Waitminute! Wee is TWO! How the h-e-doublehockeysticks does she know about Naval MINES?!?!
I just looked at her, dumbfounded.
The next morning, I recounted the story to her mother. She was amused, then reminded me that Wee had watched Finding Nemo about 200 times, so of course she knew what mines are!
posted by pjern at 9:37 AM on April 4, 2017 [1 favorite]
One night, I was watching an old war movie on TV, the brave good guys were sailing into battle. About a half hour into it, Wee, my (at that time) 2 year old granddaughter, wandered into the living room and cuddled up to watch with me.
I got involved with the movie, when I heard Wee say, in the dramatic voice that only a two-year-old can muster, “Oh NO! MINES!”.
Onscreen, sure enough, the good guys were sailing into a minefield. Waitminute! Wee is TWO! How the h-e-doublehockeysticks does she know about Naval MINES?!?!
I just looked at her, dumbfounded.
The next morning, I recounted the story to her mother. She was amused, then reminded me that Wee had watched Finding Nemo about 200 times, so of course she knew what mines are!
posted by pjern at 9:37 AM on April 4, 2017 [1 favorite]
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