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8:00 am this morning- a knock on my bedroom door. I look at the clock and think CRAP!!! I forgot to set my alarm. Dylan must be freaking out that I am not out of bed yet. Blearily I open my bedroom door. There's Dylan, looking panicked. "Mom, Caitlin is not anywhere in the house. I have checked all over, upstairs and down!" Now this sounds pretty unlikely but it is Caitlin we're talking about! So I say, "Let's go look."

We walk down stairs and there she is sitting at the computer in the guestroom, door closed, watching Curious George episodes online. "Oh," says Dylan, "I didn't look in there."

But here's the thing that kills me. How did she get to the right website? How did she start the cartoon once she was there? And when I told her to get off the computer she said "O.K." then hit some button that returned to my homepage. What the...? I didn't even know that button was there. Also she managed to remove the clock from my toolbar at the bottom of the screen and I have not the slightest idea how to get it back. And I am pretty sure she had something to do with my email password not working yesterday. I am not saying she always knows what she's doing, I am just saying she's already more computer literate than her mom.
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Summer Spillane Jordan said…
hahah...that's too funny! i just did a whole write up on this on fb yesterday! my 3 year old reconfigured his entire screen and icons on his comp! these kids are literally sponges! just think how genius they'll all be in a few more years ;) i do hate that "call of shame" as i like to call it...the one where i have to call my husband at work because a toolbar isn't there and i have no idea how to make it be there again :)
January 29, 2010 at 5:31 AM
gwyn said…
Ha! That's great. It's part of this generation's genetic make up. Sam is already getting the hang of the mouse.
January 29, 2010 at 1:08 PM
myrna said…
That child is something else, isn't she? What a fun girl. I loved the "pet pony on the nose" story. If only you lived in a "zoned for horses" neighborhood. Oh wait, you could come and live in our neighborhood, then she could pet a pony on the nose every day, and you wouldn't have to feed or take care of it! ;)
January 31, 2010 at 3:03 PM
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