Erin plays with it, washes it, styles it, dresses it, draws with it, does challenges and has tons of fun. In case you wonder how it works: there is a camera and a motion controller. The eyepet sees the motion controller and can see the motion, hence you can pet it, make it jump, roll, etc. Pook is busy with it during her allowed TV time. I love it because Beebee turned out to be a great leverage in having Erin get things done. When Erin turns into a terrible green monster(I think I wrote sometime back about Erin's Tasmanian devil mode), she gets no Beebee time. This happened last week and I do not even remember what her crime was, but she was banished from Beebee for three days. Ever since than she figured that she can pretend to be Beebee or that Beebee is right there invisible. So for the last two days Erin's been roaming the house meowing, hopping around and petting her imaginary pet. It is rather comical and adorable. Plus Beebee helps Erin to behave, eat and go potty. Beebee rocks!Erin feels that she is entitled to have me spoon feed her three meals a day. I say bite me! So she kinda eats her breakfast, than for lunch enlists her friend Aliyah to come and feed her (seriously, one three-year-old feeding another!) and complains through dinner that it is too hard. According to her the only foods fit for consumption without outside assistance are the ones requiring no spoon or fork. Pook tries to involve Danny in her games more and more, though he does not always appreciate that.
One of her favorites is building a fort around Danny-boy while he sits in his little play pin or exersaucer. Little Monkey tolerates big sis' building zeal until things start collapsing on his head. Speaking of Danny. He is almost crawling. He learned how to stand on his knees and hands, but can't quite grasp how to move them at the same time. He will either move his hands, or knees or will simply stand and rock back and forth until the frustrations makes him cry. His favorite food is rice cereal, squash and mango. Oh, mango makes him super animated and smiley! Still, only two teeth, but judging by the amount of drool in these past days, more are coming. Our teeny guy is finally outgrowing 3-6 months size clothes and is apparently having a growth spur. He babbles a lot and is becoming rather mobile. Through a combination of rolling and military crawl he can make it to the object of interest ( usually a controller, remote or some cord) a distance away. 
Just working on his teeth here...and drooling Erin continues inventing new games. Her most recent one is called a "garbage man". If I understand it correctly the point is to save your toys from the evil garbage man, by piling them onto the office chair and climbing on top of that mount. Beebee at that times sits in a purse, also stashed in the midst of the pile. 
Somehow even with this amount of toys these kids get bored. Erin and her friends were complaining that they could not come up with anything fun to do. In the best spirit of Bill Cosby I suggested they go wash windows, sweep the floor or scrub the bathroom. To my astonishment they got super excited, but unfortunately two 3-year-old and one 5-year-old do not qualify for any of these chores unless I want to redo them later. I wish they were at least 10, but than... they would unlikely be offering their services. They declined a suggestion of going to clean Erin's room. Well, that was too bad! Ta ta for now! 
2 comments:
Your kids are so cute. I can't believe how big Danny is getting. And what a wonderful imagination Erin has to play with Beebee even when it isn't on the screen. That is great, and a sign of real intelligence.
I really enjoy reading your blogs. It is so fun to see all the little antics the children do. They are so cute. We are looking forward to seeing you in June.
Love, Grandma Shaw
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