Lyla's fascination with technology

This started a few weeks ago when I decided to make Lyla's bed-time routine a little more engaging so that 1) she'd "know" better when the routine was starting and 2) she'd "like" the process better and thus would be more likely to go to be no problem.

So how did I achieve it? Letting her watch as we heat up her bottle (we still give her a bottle of milk before bed to ensure she gets enough dairy and to help soothe her). She really likes the whole process: pushing the numbers, running away from the microwave to watch from a safe distance (radiation!!!), counting down with the microwave, yelling "beep beep beep". It's all fun. It even is helping her counting because she hears the numbers counting down from ten. Anyway, here's the video.

This next video is a video of Lyla and me watching the first video. This is our third time watching it in a row. She loves looking at pictures and videos on the computer (which she affectionately calls "Pooter"). She usually signifies that she wants to look by pointing at the computer and saying "Will" (her favorite person to see pictures/videos of, Emily and Ally - her cousins - are her second favorite). Anyway, I love how big her smile gets watching and how she recognizes people in the videos. It kind of freaks me out that she's quickly become as (if not more) tech-savvy than I am, but it is inevitable so I might was well enjoy it... and take advantage of it by having her do all the tech stuff for my business. Anyway, enjoy the video.

Our virtual koi pond

And you thought 5 year olds were tough!

I could survive for 1 minute, 19 seconds chained to a bunk bed with a velociraptor

Behind the scenes

Here's Lyla working on another ringworld.blogspot.com post!

The random things you find online.

It's interesting the things you can learn about yourself on the web.

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I really have no frame of reference for testing the validity of this assessment. The closest thing I can compare it to is doing child care for church with Katherine. Let's see, there were on average 15 children, spanning in ages from infant to 12 years old. Katherine would take the younger kids and I would take the older kids, so about 6 kids ages 7 to 12. After 2 hours of playing, corralling, feeding, and sometimes fighting (just kidding, more like getting beat up by) these kids I would be wiped. So yea, I could see myself lasting long enough to take out 22 five year-olds...

The question now becomes how will I use this knowledge?