Miscellaneous Musings on my Little Ones
I haven't had much sitting down time for writing stuff, but really quickly (I hope) I have a moment and wanted to relate some things.
First, my smart, smart little daughter (who is five years old now) and I were playing a little computer game the other day. In it, the main character (PuttPutt, if the name means anything for you) loses several items through a time portal, and is told by his wacky scientist friend (who created the time portal) that the time portal cannot be closed until all items have been returned to their present time.
After a series of age-appropriate obstacles, PuttPutt is able to retrieve all of his items, returns to his own time, and the time portal is closed for good. However, in the course of his travels, PuttPutt acquires an oil can from the Old West that he used for various things. The oil can travels with him to the present, even unto the closing of the portal; and Joanna had the presence of mind to ask why the oil can did not need to be returned to *its* time as well. Personally, I had never given it any thought -the emphasis of the game, after all, was to return the four *original* items lost, and not any that had been acquired along the way. But her question was valid, and I told her so. What a smart girl!
On another matter, little Michael (coming up on twenty months old) is becoming a gadget junkie. We went to New Year's Eve party at a friend's house (which was a beautiful home, by the way!), and Michael was getting into all of the electronic gear he could find. First, we got him away from the upstairs computer, then from the downstairs computer, and then from the phone. But when he walked out of the bathroom holding their bathroom scale - with digital display - I just shook my head and laughed!!
I keep getting the sensation that there was something else that I was going to write, but nothing else is actually bubbling to the surface , so I suppose it will wait for another time. Bye!
First, my smart, smart little daughter (who is five years old now) and I were playing a little computer game the other day. In it, the main character (PuttPutt, if the name means anything for you) loses several items through a time portal, and is told by his wacky scientist friend (who created the time portal) that the time portal cannot be closed until all items have been returned to their present time.
After a series of age-appropriate obstacles, PuttPutt is able to retrieve all of his items, returns to his own time, and the time portal is closed for good. However, in the course of his travels, PuttPutt acquires an oil can from the Old West that he used for various things. The oil can travels with him to the present, even unto the closing of the portal; and Joanna had the presence of mind to ask why the oil can did not need to be returned to *its* time as well. Personally, I had never given it any thought -the emphasis of the game, after all, was to return the four *original* items lost, and not any that had been acquired along the way. But her question was valid, and I told her so. What a smart girl!
On another matter, little Michael (coming up on twenty months old) is becoming a gadget junkie. We went to New Year's Eve party at a friend's house (which was a beautiful home, by the way!), and Michael was getting into all of the electronic gear he could find. First, we got him away from the upstairs computer, then from the downstairs computer, and then from the phone. But when he walked out of the bathroom holding their bathroom scale - with digital display - I just shook my head and laughed!!
I keep getting the sensation that there was something else that I was going to write, but nothing else is actually bubbling to the surface , so I suppose it will wait for another time. Bye!
posted by Kathy Romer | 7:18 AM
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