More than you ever wanted to know about my son.

[Hampshire]

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Major Update! Holy Crap!

My son is showing signs of letter and number recognition!

He has a toy computer that asks him to push the button that corresponds to the first letter in a word. The thing drives me nuts, because all he knows how to do with it is adjust the volume, which causes monkeys to squeal at the volume of the new setting. Whenever he played the letter games, he pushes random letters, and all I hear all day is “oops! try again!” or “sorry!”

I just heard the computer say “Whippee!!!” It was so startling that I didn’t know where it was coming from, at first. The computer hasn’t made that noise before! So I watched him for a few more minutes. It said “look at the word, and push the correct letter!” My little monster looked at the keys for a minute, deliberately pushed one, and got a “C is for car!” response, and my son gleefully replied “caaaah!!!” TWO correct in a row!

The next one asked him to find the S button, for “snake”. He looked for the correct button, and pushed Z. It said “whoops! Try again!” So he stubbornly pushed the Z button again, and it said “Sorry!” So he looked at the keys again, and I’ll be damned if he didn’t find S and push it!

For the past 10 minutes or so he has gotten nearly ALL of the letters correct! He pushed the “new game” button, and it asked him to find the number 10. He pushed the 10 button! (the number buttons are labeled 1-10 on his toy, not 0-9 like a real keyboard is). After that he got bored and put the toy away, so I couldn’t tell whether he just got lucky with the numbers or not.

Anyway, I’m really excited! Go, little monster offspring, go!

What toy is this? Who makes it?
Junior turn two next month and would love this thing.