Tech boy

Daniel is such a bright kid. Reminds me of the stories I heard about me when I was 3 or 4 that I never really believed. He reads pretty much anything that doesn't have any weird silent letters (and if he knows the word he'll sometimes work it out anyway).

I was in the living room the other day and I hear Daniel call from down the hall, "What comes after Grandpa?"

I go down the hall and see that one of Amber's friends had sent her an instant message and the window was open. Daniel remembered that Grandpa Bob always used to send him messages when we were in Nakusp and assumed this was Grandpa writing to him.

I look on the screen and he had typed, "daniel, grampa".

He knew what he wanted to say and sounded it out and typed it.

He did the same thing to me a couple days later. I was on break at work and fired up msn on the break room computer to see how things were going at home. I wrote Hi or something and after a few minutes I get back the reply, "daniel, daddy." He saw my name in the address and knew it was me.

Now that I'm writing it, I'm realizing that he used commas to separate the names. What's up with that? Who taught him about commas??!!

We're gonna need a better lock on our computer. He'll have that screensaver password cracked before he's 4.