21st Century Baby

It's amazing what technology does to peoples' lifestyles.  Now, Stephen and I don't live any sort of a technology-extravagant lifestyle.  Sure, we have cell phones, ipods, TVs, etc., but we aren't completely up-to-date on the latest fads.  It is crazy how quickly babies catch onto technology, though!  Sydney loves playing with my ipod, my cell phone, the remote to the TV.  (She calls it a "clicker").  Our SUV has a built-in TV/DVD player, so when we're in any other car, she immediately starts up with, "TV?? TV??"  We have to explain that the other car doesn't have a TV in it.  Not sure if she gets that quite yet.  Beginning when she was 18 months old, she always wanted to listen to music on my ipod.  She would cry "IPOD!" and say "moosic?".  Then she'll jam away, listening with the earphones in her ears.  We're not spoiling her too much, are we?

Let's see... what else?  Sydney always wants to sit at the computer and look at pictures and videos. She will stand up in her crib and try to turn on the CD player next to the crib. Sydney will play with my cell phone and get to screens I had no idea how to get to.  Usually she logs onto the internet on my phone.  She'll pretend to talk to people on the phone.  She once played with the TV remote and set it to be picture-on-picture, something I couldn't figure out how to get rid of.  (Turns out all you had to do was turn the TV off and back on again... duh).  My friend was showing her pictures on her iphone, and Sydney was using her finger to move the pictures on the screen to go to the next ones.  I don't even know if I would have known to do that! ;)

It's crazy.  Soon Sydney and others her age will be surfing the net, flying airplanes, going to space... who knows what's in store for them!

Sydney rocking out to her ipod.