Not Even Three Years Old
Well, it had to happen…
The scene: mom and dad sitting on the sofa tapping away on our laptops while Colin plays with his trains in the train room. Colin comes over and sits down between us.
“Mommy, can I play alphabet on your computer?”
“No, honey.”
“Daddy, can I play alphabet on your computer?”
“Sorry Colin, I’m trying to find a sofa for the basement.”
…Pause…
“Oh. Where’s MY computer?”
He busily told us for a couple of minutes about how he needs a computer and wants one when he gets older. He wants a Colin Computer.
He’s not even three years old. And he has a iPod Touch. C’mon Colin, that has more computing power than the first 10 computers your dad every had…
And I thought son Matthew was precocious!
I think I told you guys: Having children is, among other things, intellectually stimulating. You’re in for a ride!
Ha! That’s awesome – my niece starting playing on our computers when she was two and I can’t even believe – the kid can type and spell now!!! She’s 3. I say get him a computer! Old, beat up, $30 computer from ebay with some word processor on it! He sounds adorable and fun and sweet- I’d love to see all of you soon – your family is beautiful!!!!
I sent Colin’s birthday card to you since I assume the poor kid doesn’t have his own e-mail address yet either. Alas, no computer or e-mail address. Now that he is older….3, that is, I’m waiting to hear about his “new” computer AND his e-mail address. (Of course I don’t have a clue what an iPod does.) But he sounds very convincing trying to convince his parents of his need for his own computer.
Oh don’t be fooled. Both he and Hannah already have their own email addresses… And for that matter their own web URLs, granted we’re not doing anything with colinellsworth.com or hannahellsworth.com other than aliasing them to ellsworthlink.net, they HAVE them. We read somewhere it is “what’s done” for kids these days, so there you go…
So right now he’s just laptop free. We’ll see how long that lasts. I’m guessing it lasts until I want a new one.