mood: 
happy
music: silence
Lando has recently become much better at using the computer.
For quite awhile now, he has been able to click on things with the mouse, but more often than not he would right-click on things, bringing up the context menu, rather than left-clicking on them. He'd be at Noggin's web site, for example, trying to play some Flash-based game, and instead would keep getting the context menu. As a result, when he wanted to do something on the computer, that pretty much meant that Dawn or I would have to sit next to him and click on whatever he pointed at.
However, just in the last week or so he seems to have gotten the hang of it. He's now left-clicking with the best of them! And he loves it! We'll bring up the web page for Ready Set Learn!, Caillou, or Oobi, and Lando will spend 30 minutes quietly clicking his way through the activities. He doesn't know how to click and drag yet, so he can't really do things that require that (such as drawing), but many of the games just require clicking, so that isn't really a problem. I even turned him loose on YouTube so he could watch SCA combat videos! That might have been a bit dangerous, but so far as I know he didn't locate the "2 girls 1 cup" video.
Unfortunately, whenever he would play one of the Ready Set Learn games, he would quite often click the button to print the screen. That's fine, except that after he would do that, the Windows printer dialog box would pop up. Lando wouldn't know what to do, so every few minutes it was "Dad! Come here! I need you!"
After a couple of days of that, I made a mistake: I explained to him which button to click in the print dialog box to make it print. Why I didn't explain to him the "Cancel" button instead, I don't know. As a result, Lando has printed so much stuff over the last 3 days that he's now responsible for the disappearance of an additional 2 acres of the Amazon rain forest. Well... At least 1 acre. Anyway, he's printed a lot of stuff!
So, if you're in need of pages for your toddler to color or material to use as insulation for your house, just call. We've got plenty.
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