Startin’ ‘em Young

I love my iPad.  Nat bought it for me at the beginning of the year (along with a Motorola Xoom for himself) with the award money he got for being 7-Eleven’s 2010 National Real Estate Rep of the Year.  I don’t know how I ever lived without it!  Nor can my children.  Adam figured out how to work it immediately because he had been playing with my Dad’s iPhone for so long.

Well just recently, I downloaded some apps that I knew Abby would have fun with and she likes to play them as long as her brother isn’t dominating.  Which isn’t very often. 

The other day I had the iPad up on the back of the couch.  I was in the kitchen but I watched as Abby climbed onto the couch, grabbed the iPad, slid down onto her bum, flipped open the cover and pressed the on button!  The only thing she couldn’t do was slide the unlock icon to bring up the app page.  Give her a couple more days and I think she’ll have it figured out!

She was so cute to watch because after she would touch a hidden animal, she’d stick her finger in her mouth until she found another one and then stick it right back in.  It takes a lot of concentration to find those animals! :)

In this video she is touching the small animals on the bottom bar of the screen to make the big animal jiggle up top so that she can find it (they are hidden behind things).  She must have learned that from Adam!  I also didn’t know she knew how to get back to the app page, slide her finger to make the page move, and then select the next game she wanted to play.  The one she picked is actually one of her favorites so she obviously knew which one she was looking for when she selected it.

p.s.  That annoying ‘clunk, clunk, bang’ noise you hear in the background is Adam throwing cars down the stairs.  Lovely.