Theeeerrre heeerrre!

My daughter hovers around the KOm PU terr and wants to always watch mooobies but this one ain't built for toddlers. The red light on the underside of the mouse is blinding! Those pretty keyboard buttons? Not washable. And the screen? One could make a positive identification from the tiny fingerprints formed by enthusiastic pointing and drool. We are trying the VTech Mobigo from Santa which was built for overzealous interaction so we shall see how that goes. But I also just heard about Dell's Touchscreen Inspiron.  Maybe Santa will bring me one.

Making a holiday memory

My mother managed to hold on to a little tiny 5 loop paper garland that I made with my grandmother - wow- probably 35 years ago? (shudder) It's amazing the thing lasted (did they even have paper back then? not just chalkboards? Didn't we have to walk 3 miles in the snow uphill with a nickel to buy one piece of special green paper? - I may be taking some artistic license with that story because it sounds interestingly a lot like the stories MY parents told and it's a little more probable that their's are accurate.)

Anyhow, the thing survived and I thought the idea was a great one for my daughter and I.  She's 2 so it's a project that isn't immediately dangerous (like stringing lights or popcorn - needles and electricity = No good.) So she creates the designs and I cut the strips.  We ended up with a beautiful, unique keepsake decoration for Nana's tree (us apartment dwellers use plants or flowers in place of actual Evergreens) that hopefully will last until my little girl can repeat the project with her children.