Our little Einstein

Well, not exactly, but I do have to brag a bit...

Sophie received a V-tech laptop toy from my mom as a birthday gift in September and plays with it all the time. (There's pictures of her playing with it below, one or two entries down.) It has word and math games on it intended for children much older than she is, but she really likes pushing the buttons, making it make sounds, and watching the pictures move on the top screen. Well, several weeks ago we noticed her playing a game on it that asks you to press the number that is shown on the screen, and she was getting them right!! She can recognize all the numbers 0-9 and can say a couple of them (two, nine).

Well, now she is doing letter games and getting the answers right!! The particular game she was playing last night (and there are over 30 games to choose from; she lands on whatever game she plays just by chance) was asking for her to press the lower case letter it was saying and showing on screen. The buttons on the laptop keyboard are laid out in alphabetical order (as opposed to the "Qwerty" arrangement like on our keyboards) and have the upper case letters in the middle of the button and the lower case version in the upper right part of the button, quite a bit smaller than the upper case letter. She has to recognize the letter and locate it on the keyboard and press the corresponding button. She got all the vowels right and more than half of the consonants.

I know we're biased, but we thought that was pretty amazing. :)