Our connected boys

In bed before lights-out, if they've been very good that day and have eaten their dinners, the boys get to play with Daddy's iPad for a while.  It's connected to the internet, so that means they get to watch Mickey Mouse videos on YouTube.  Their favorites are the 1930s-era animated shorts.

But because it's connected to the internet, there are actually all sorts of things they can do during their Relax With Technology time.  Email, for instance.  They have one-touch access to an email application.

So last night they wrote an email to their daddy.  It was waiting in his inbox this morning and he forwarded it to me.  And we had to go hug them immediately.  The email read, "Arram love mama and daddy and amiri".  

Amiri did the typing, obviously, but it would appear he was transcribing his brother's statements.  So this is what they discuss during all that sweet little-boy chatter while they're going to sleep.  And with the right tools they will write it down and tell us about it.  Now, after getting mail like that, how are we supposed to ever refuse them the iPad??