Techie Kids

Jim bought me and iPod Touch for my birthday and it has been great to have email, music, internet, calendar, and a place to make notes at my fingertips. The kids especially love that we have downloaded some kid tunes from iTunes and they love dancing around the living room. They love having the music up really loud which eventually drives mommy crazy and I have to turn it off!

Anyways, the kids know they are not supposed to play with mommy's iPod, but what kids do you know that always listen to their parents?? Needless to say, they have played with mommy's iPod, but what they did with my iPod is really amazing.

Let's back up. The kids wanted to make cookies the other day, so Emily measured ingredients and mixed them all by herself. Spencer came just in time to help her roll them into balls and put them on the cookie sheets (Matthew was asleep or else he would have been a huge part of this whole process!). The kids did everything short of putting them in and taking them out of the oven. Emily was pretty proud of herself. We made sure to compliment her on how good her cookies tasted, and she was just beaming. Being the Emily that she is, when she was done making cookies, she got out little plastic baggies, paper, yarn, a hole puncher--do you see where I am going with this? She is always making things for people and writing notes. In the end she had made a special note for each person in the family that said "I Love You, Love Emily" attached to the plastic baggie (filled with a cookie) with yarn through a hole punch--clever. She did this in secret so it would be a surprise. Then she put these under everyone's pillow. This is where the iPod stuff comes in.

She then got my iPod (this was all secretive of course) and emailed (yes--emailed!) me and Jim seperately to tell us that there was a surprise under our pillow. How in the world did she know how to email? She figured out how to get into the email, choose who to send the email to, and type a message on the iPod and hit send. She did all this before she got caught by me, which was not very long after she had been sneaky and took my iPod. She got in trouble of course, but it didn't stop her from hiding under the table a day or so later and typing an email to Aunt Amy to tell her that Gabe was asleep in his new crib--just in case she was wondering :) I guess I should have let her hit send!! Maybe I should bribe her that she can have an email account as soon as she learns to type on the real computer! Be expecting messages soon!

P.S. Just for kicks, last night Jim handed Emily his iPhone last night and told her to send me an email just so we could watch her--didn't take long before I had a message in my inbox!