Owen likes to type. He can busy himself for absurd lengths of time just typing on the computer.
Usually, it's things like this:
AaBbCcDdEeFf
or this:
12345678910111213
or even this:
The?owenOPENgoHalloween
Course, you have to imagine the letters are multicolored and in all different sizes, since he's a whiz with the formatting palette. Who needs computer games when you have Microsoft Word?!
He will sometimes be at it for an hour or more. Seriously. When he declares himself done (which usually means he's reached a number like 40 or 100 or finished the alphabet), he calls us into the computer room so we can help him print it out. Then, he takes the piece of paper, cuts out the portion with the letters and calls it his "list." On more than one occasion, our departure to the store or elsewhere has been delayed because he was just wrapping up his list. And some evenings, he chooses to type rather than watch TV. Weird, right?
I have to admit, though, it is pretty amazing how well he can use a computer. He logs into his account, launchs Word and does just about everything up to the point of printing without any help. At age 4, he knows his way around a computer better than I did in, oh, middle school?
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Or I did, in, sadly, college!
Well, I was taking Commodore 64 experience into consideration.
Now that I think about it, we actually had a typing "game" that Owen would have loved! It was like Space Invaders, except it was letters dropping out of the sky and you had to shoot them by typing them before they hit the ground.
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