MOUS Mastery

So for the last year or so, I've been taking the little man online so that he can see the online offerings of Barney, Elmo and the Wiggles. He really loves the Barney and Wiggles sites. In all of this, I've been trying to teach him how to use the mous. For the first couple of times he kept using the scroll ball and using the right click key which was drivign me to insanity because he kept messing up the screen.

A few weeks ago, I noticed him getting better and better and began to have hope that we might master this before the end of that session, alas that did not happen. So yesterday he asks me to take him to the BArney site so that he can play with the bubbles on the farm. I sit down and get myself comfy because I know that we are once again going to working on his mous technique. First we go to the Wiggles site which has now changed. I'm going to have to spend some quality time learnign where all the old stuff is and practicing the new stuff for when we go back. Then Lord have mercy, the Barney site has also changed and I can't find his favorite counting game - yes that would be the bubbles on the farm. Finally I locate it and we settle down.

He sits on my lap and pushes my hand away from the mous. He positions himself and then adeptly moves the mouse over to the chick, clicks on the chick, the bubble engulfs the chick and moves it over to the cylinder and the magical number 1 comes up. I pause and wait, he does it again and again and again. When he's done with that lot, he smiles, looks at me and tells me he wants to do it again. I can't believe it - he's finally mastered the MOUS. YOu go Tristan! The world is your oyster.