Computer Savvy 2 Year Old

We're not quite sure how it happened, but Makenna has become quite computer savvy over the last month or two. We decided that in today's computer-centered world that it would be a good idea for her to get used to the computer and start having fun on it (on a limited basis). So I started playing learning games with her on the PBS Kids website every once in awhile and she LOVES it! It started off that she would sit in my lap and point to whatever she would want me to do and I would use the mouse for her. Well of course that didn't last long because she wanted to try the mouse. After a very short time she was using the mouse and navigating the kid's website fairly easily. Now we have come to the realization that she can navigate the computer like a pro all on her own! The other day she asked if she could play the computer so I was going to help her get on and she said "No Mommy I do it." So I backed off to see what she would do... the screen was blank with nothing on it. She clicked on the Internet Explorer icon, clicked on the Favorites icon, scrolled down to PBS Kids and clicked yet again! She got all the way into the website on her own! I was standing there in disbelief as she's yelling at me "Mommy I did it!"

Another computer related story... Makenna was asking Josh for some water in her sippy cup one night and Josh told her to go get her cup and he would fill it up for her. She responded with "No daddy you get my sippy. I gotta go check my email."

Maryn is getting SO big and at the fun stage where it seems like she is doing something new every day. She is trying to wave more now, but most of the time does a backwards wave and ends up waving at herself instead :) Exactly how Makenna waved at first as well! Maryn is also starting to "talk" more. She is making sounds that sound more like actual words - mama, dada, baba, nana. Of course she has no clue what she is saying yet, but it is still fun to hear her "talking"! She is so close to crawling... she gets up on all fours, rocks back and forth for awhile and will try with an arm or a leg to move forward and then will fall flat on her belly. For now she's sticking with her daddy's favorite wrestling move, gut wrench defense, and scooting backwards to get around :)

Makenna is trying out the concept of giving people compliments lately and it is absolutely hilarious. Some of the funnier examples... As I'm pushing her on the swings "Mommy, you're a great pusher!" As we're eating our picnic lunch up in her playhouse "Mommy you're a great luncher!" And the best yet... as I'm helping her wipe after she went to the bathroom "Mommy you're the best wiper in the whole world!" I'm so proud to hold that title! ;) Of course whenever Josh is pushing her on the swings or helping her wipe, the title gets transferred to him.

The other night after Josh had put Makenna to bed, she came out and yelled for Josh from the top of the stairs. She had the book in her hand that Josh had just read to her for bedtime and was pointing to a page... "Daddy you forgot a page!" Josh just thought it was just another last ditch effort to get out of going to bed, but when he walked her to her room and looked at the book he had missed a page! Apparently the pages had stuck together and then later when she was looking through the book on her own she recognized that he hadn't read one of the pages! Very perceptive!

Can't get enough of this smile!


Makenna playing with her Thomas trains!