Forgive the excess posting, but I’ve got a lot to catch up on! And our blog wouldn’t be complete without sharing about our little computer monster. Little miss Mylie has been fascinated with our computer for some time (and who is surprised by that, honestly, with her techno-geek parents?). And, well, now she’s taken her fascination with it to a new level.
For awhile, we’d been getting online to play Elmo’s Keyboard-o-Rama at Sesame Workshop. This was a simple game where she could press the buttons on the keyboard and learn her letters at the same time. But she started getting bored by it, so we ventured to a few other games on the site. Well, soon, she wanted to control the mouse. Okay, no problem. She can’t hurt much…
Then for Christmas, we bought her another Sesame Street game. Since it’s hard for me to get things set up for her while in the middle of nursing, Nick set her up with her own log-in name on our family computer. He put some administrative limits on her account so that she can’t download things, etc. But she picked out her own icon, and then he made special icons on the desktop for her to get to her two different games. Well, the whole thing has taken on a life of its own.
She can now log on, open which ever game she wants, and then has the mouse control to navigate through the menus, choose whichever game she wants, close out of games, double click, drag and drop, and just about anything else (with the exception of typing legitimate words, although that’s only a few months away). Seriously, I never thought I would have to put daily computer time-limits on my TWO YEAR OLD!
Today, as I was sitting here typing, she got on the other computer and started playing. Then she somehow found Google, and was googling something she’d typed. Then she wanted to get back to her games, so I watched her shrink her internet explorer window, find her game icon, and then drag and drop it back onto the internet explorer on the task bar, so that it opened again. Are you kidding me?! I know that future generations are all going to be more tech savvy that their predecessors, look out Nick – I think your job security is in jeopardy…
YEah! I love your blog. SO fun to look at pics and get updates here and there. Keep them coming. It seems like Mylie and Aidan were just learning to crawl… Crazy! And Nolan is a doll!
Tiff
Um…I don’t even think I can do all of those things Mylie can do….
We hope our kids are as cute as yours!!! I can not believe what Mylie can do on the computer, we thought Jason was amazing that he knew how to put in a computer disk and play the game. Now, she is dragging and googling? Scary!! Keep those restictions on tight. You’re lucky you and Nick know so much about computers that you can do that. When we have kids, they won’t get near the computer for fear we won’t know how to correct what they did. Keep me posted on your adorable family, I love to hear from you guys.
Love,
The Books
Holy Toledo…you go Mylie. I was confused just reading. She know more than me. Although, with my age…remember no computers until I was graduating from college….everyone know more than me!! But, I’m trying. I’ll make sure to become friends with Mylie so she can help me.