Electronic Universe

There is a lot of electronic equipment in baby’s house. Two cordless phones, two cell phones, three Apple computers, an external modem, a wireless hub, one Dell computer, a TV, a VHS player, a DVD player, a set-top digital cable box, a Canon digital Rebel camera, a digital camcorder, two Hewlett-Packard printers, one Brother printer, and a ten-year-old shelf-unit stereo. And I will earnestly look you in the eye and tell you that I’m not very technically oriented. Baby, on the other hand, will almost certainly be technically oriented, already is in some ways. Not only does she have a toy cell phone, a toy karaoke machine, and a toy laptop computer, but she prefers the real thing. She wants to handle, and learn how to operate, our phones, our computers, our everything. She has successfully turned the TV on and off with the remote control, changed the channel, adjusted the volume, as well as called a variety of people using the cell phones and the home phones. You could reasonably assert that she didn’t know what she was doing when she did these things; and I might say back that she has a better idea of what’s going on than any one-year-old could have had a generation, or two, or three, ago. May the Holy Spirit accompany her through the electronic universe.

May It Come to Pass

Baby’s time at a friend’s 40th birthday party on Friday night has led to her third cold in her first 14 months. We’re fortunate that she is not exposed to the number of microbes she would be if we weren’t able to keep her home all week. Word is that the health aspect of even the very best daycare centers leaves something to be desired, that they are petri dishes in four dimensions. A little of the light has gone out of our princess’s eyes; her nose is running much of the time; and her sneezes are veritable events. It would be a blessing if she were to have healed by the time we leave for our first trip back to New England four days from now. May it come to pass.