Proud Moments

If I was a normal person then I'd be waiting for Ian to hit milestones like his first baseball pitch or first perfect football toss. Being the geek that I am, I'm way more excited about his first successful mouse click. Ian has a couple I-Spy books that he really enjoys, and the other day I was in Target with him and saw an I-Spy computer game so I picked it up. We spent hours sitting on the couch playing it, with him pointing things out and me doing all the computing.

Then a few days later we were sitting at the kitchen table, and I had the brilliant idea of running downstairs and grabbing a mouse I had laying around. I plugged it in and showed Ian how it worked and in just a few minutes he had it figured out. I realize it's kind of a dumb thing to be excited about, but I thought it was cute.

The mouse is a little big for him, and he tends to jiggle it when he clicks, so he's been using the mouse to get the cursor where he wants, and then uses the buttons on the laptop's touchpad instead of the mouse button to select things.

I'll teach him how to throw a football next week. After Sarah shows me how.