Get ‘em while they’re still young

17 April 2006

We were graced with the grand presence of Darcie yesterday. For those of you who don’t know, Darcie is my brother’s girlfriend’s sister’s daughter. Or, if you think that’s me making it complicated, if John and Sam were married, Darcie would be his niece. There, get it?

We only see Vanessa and Darcie now and again, so it’s always interesting to see how Darcie has grown. She had a whole bunch of new tricks this time: crawling, sitting, pulling herself up, two little teeth, waving, bobbing her head about to music, clapping and banging her little pink plastic balls together. Unfortunately I don’t think Vanessa had any new tricks with which to impress us, but, to her credit, I think she had all Darcie’s tricks down pat a long time ago.

Having had a good suck on my tape measure, Darcie inspected John’s iBook as he showed her his photos of her that he’d uploaded to Flickr. John put the cursor in the comment box and Darcie proceeded to leave her mark. Patting away at the keys and touching the screen, she managed to do things for which John and I had no idea what the keyboard shortcut was. Little menus popped up, the dock locked in the up position and suddenly she was zoomed in on the screen. She’s obviously going to be a computer whizz and I guess that’s how to learn about computers: press four keys at once with a slightly sticky little hand and see what happens.