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Paging Steve Jobs

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Hey Steve — I was just at Costco with my kids. We went to the kids’ software aisle. Okay, not the smartest thing I’ve ever done, what with the grunting and the pointing and the shrieking (and that’s just the other shoppers there—bah-dum-bum-bum).

There was a lot of software there, most of which my daughter wanted and most of which we couldn’t get because it runs under Windows only. Yeah, I’m a Mac owner; I’m used to that.

I wasn’t quite expecting it with the Pixar software, dude.

Could you look into this? Find out why a couple of the Pixar titles are available on Windows only? I hear you have some pull with the Pixar people, so maybe you can get them to expand their damn software line to include Macintosh, eh?

Sincerely,

A Mom. And Mac Owner.

Evening eavesdropping

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I thought I heard some noise coming from upstairs, so I turned on the baby monitor to discover Sophia is reading Curious George Learns the Alphabet to herself. I don’t know whether she’s actually reading it or has just memorized it, but she’s doing a fairly thorough reading.

Our bedtime ritual allows for her to read herself to sleep. It’s great to hear she’s actually taking advantage of it.

No paternity test needed

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I am not making this up:

Yesterday afternoon, Sophia and I snuggled on the living room couch so I could read to her. She wanted “Sleeping Beauty.” Okay, okay. In Disney’s version, there are three good fairies at the baby’s christeninig who give the new baby gifts like “Beauty” and “Song.”

I turned to Sophia and said, “What did the fairies bring you when you were born?”

She smiled and said, “We don’t have fairies in our world.”

I swear to you she said this.

I also swear to you that, while we’re planning on bringing the kids up without religion, we haven’t exactly been harping on it yet. After all, Sophia’s three. The whole sky-elf discussion can wait a little bit.

Or maybe we can skip that whole thing. She seems to be a little ahead of the curve.

I told Darin about what she said and he said, “Yes.” Daddy’s little rationalist.