Charles’ computer skills continue to grow. One of his habits while playing his driving games is to require Dad to keep his hand on the mouse. I’m not sure why but it’s important to Charles. This can get a little straining when Charles just sits and stares at the car preview which preceeds the actual driving.
After more go arounds than I care to remember I finally began to figure out that Charles really wanted me reset his car when he got it stuck. In his desperation to keep driving even when Dad didn’t respond immediately Charles started trying to work the controls himself. He had already figured out the ESCAPE key to bring up the menu, but this time he was able to use the mouse to click on menu items. It was very cute — first he just moved the mouse around randomly until he saw the cursor on the screen (which in this game is a very large arrow). At that point he connected the mouse movement to the cursor movement and moved the cursor over the “go” button. Presumably he knew where because he had seen Dad click the button before. 26 months old and he’s already grasped the use of a computer pointing device! Now that’s my boy!