Elliot: “Robots”
Aki: “More Robots?”
Elliot: “K”
One of the songs Elliot asks to listen to when commuting to/from the Garden Pre-School is We Are The Robots by Kraftwerk. He starts kicking his leg in the carseat when it plays.
So tonight I showed him a few videos on YouTube of real robots, like Atlas, Spot, Spot Mini, and BigDog from Boston Dynamics. There were others like a fish robot, but Boston Dynamics are always the most impressive.
Elliot was enthralled with the videos. He put down everything and just watched. He had been playing with a Halloween toy before — a doorbell that makes noises and sounds when a button is pressed. We would not put that thing down for a half hour, since it was new. But when I put on the robot videos on the basement TV, he immediately dropped the toy and was fascinated.
Tonight Elliot discovered an Etch-A-Sketch in the toy room. He loved it. He understood how it worked very quickly, and liked to watch the line move. He kept saying “Up? Up?” and I would help him to move it up since neither of us can remember which knob in which direction to turn.
He brought it into the bath tub and played with it. He brought it to bed and continued playing with it. All in all, he played with it probably 30 minutes, or more, and did not want to put it down.
I can not remember the last time I was that excited about Etch-A-Sketch!
