In the Night Garden
Should I be concerned? My Little Miss knows a bit too much about In the Night Garden, I fear.
In the Night Garden book
The opening theme begins and Little Miss shouts out “GAH-DEN…GAH-DEN”. She makes a little circle on her hand the way the Mummy or Daddy does to the child or baby. She makes little “ooo-oooh” sounds like Upsy Daisy before the title credit.
SHE KNOWS WHETHER IT’S THE NINKY NONK OR THE PINKY PONK JUST BY HEARING THE MUSIC!!! “Non non” for Ninky Nonk; “Poh” for Pinky Ponk. Little Miss claps along with Makka Pakka’s theme, does a little dance along with Upsy Daisy’s theme, Knocks on the Door and finds her nose along with the Tombliboos theme.
When the Pontipines come on the screen she calls out “mi mi mi mi” just like they do. And oh, when the Dance at the Magical Gazebo comes around…well, it’s just all over! Little Miss calls it the “doh”.
No one in my family can understand why I don’t mind the In the Night Garden characters as I loathe and abhor the Teletubbies. My husband says that In the Night Garden is just like the Teletubbies! Pfahhh….what does he know! I love the fact that my Little Miss has ONE show that she will watch and stay focused on. I know, I know…it’s the evil telly! Well, I don’t think a bit of telly is such a bad thing…so sue me!
In addition to knowing too much about the show, we have the clip-on soft toys of Upsy Daisy, Igglepiggle and Makka Pakka and the small plastic dolls of the whole crew. We have a few books and that’s about the extent of our In the Night Garden collection. We don’t have the Igglepiggle Sleepy Soft Toy so if anyone special wants to send it to us for a review, we’d happily accept it. 
Actually, I shouldn’t be worried about Little Miss’ attraction to In the Night Garden. It’s me I should be worried about. I know the words to all the character’s theme songs, I know the opening and closing narrative, I know what comes with each bit of music and even the dreaded dance that they do…I could dance along with them for goodness sake! Perhaps I am the one who should not watch?!
Until then, Little Miss and I will tune in to the daily episodes of In the Night Garden (well, we don’t watch EVERY day) and have our happy little routine. Maybe you should check it out, if you haven’t…it’s not so bad after all!
Makka Pakka, Akka Wakka, Mika, Maka, Moo...
We love ITNG too. It was the first programme Big E really engaged with.
Were you writing about our house? I like ITNG, it’s so gentle. I thought I’d never learn the words to Makka Pakka’s song…
I didn’t either Sandy, until we got the Songs & Rhymes from In the Night Garden book…all spelled out for me! I can write it down for anyone who’s interested!
Thanks for sharing the ITNG passion!
I just found your blog via BMB nd had to comment on this post.
My daughter is 2 and a half and is obsessed with ITNG so now we’ve moved I have redone her bedroom in that theme, but its sooooo expensive for all the tat that comes with it. After your comment about the Blanket Iggle Piggle, I’m not sure if someone did send you one (if they did, please pass my details on!) but I have a tip-EBay. Got my daughter loads of it on there, as I’m sure kids like something for 6 months then got bored, so they go for a fraction of the price.
Great blog in general by the way xxx
Thank you Claire…most of Little Miss’ interest revolves around ITNG right now but she’s not totally fixated yet. I don’t know that I’d go so far as decorating her room…you are a brave woman and wonderful Mummy. I’ll check out eBay! Thanks for visiting and commenting. Isn’t BMB a wonderful thing?!