My baby can Skype!

What an age we live in! We regularly chat to Little Man’s grandparents using Skype. It’s great because they can see him, and he can show off his latest trick, or play peek-a-boo with them, despite being hundreds of miles away from them.

At this stage, Little Man recognises that the computer or laptop can be used to talk to people. I think he really figured it out in the past few weeks, when both sets of grandparents came to visit over the course of a couple of weekends. With each of them, he took a good look at them when they arrived, and then pointed quite dramatically at the computer, as if to say “You belong in there!”

Tonight he spotted my laptop in the sitting room, and then nothing would do but we had to talk to “Nana, Nana, Nana!” So I agreed that we would talk to Nana, and I booted up the laptop. He was so excited when he saw that I was turning it on, and it seems he is even more impatient than I am with how long my laptop takes to boot up. But eventually, several minutes later, we spoke to my parents using Skype, and Little Man was delighted. During our conversation he walked around the laptop to have a look at the back of it and see if he could figure out how Nana and Grandard fit in there!

He is growing up in such a technological age. I wonder will he listen to our stories of voice-only calls and think of them in the way we thought of black-and-white TVs and “the wireless” growing up? Or am I not imagining far enough? Will he think that our 2D fuzzy images of each other are quaint forms of video communication? Who knows? All I know is that I can’t wait to find out