Microchip Off the Old Block

The family business!The baby keyboard is GENIUS. Alison loves to sit at the computer and mash the dickens out of the keyboard and smack around the mouse, so this little sucker means that she can get her technology on without trashing the family computer in the process. It straps on over the regular keyboard, you pop in a CDR with some games on it, and all she has to do is match the shapes on the keypad to those on the screen. (Plus, you can tell that it's originally French software, so it's dubbed over and has that Euro sensibility-- hilarious.)

She loves the little characters-- she waves at them when they come onscreen-- and she likes to clap along to the music, as well as play the games. It's not my new electronic babysitter, but it does give me a few minutes to unload the dishwasher in relative peace.

In other news, we successfully used our potty chair for the first time yesterday! I'll spare everyone the details.