Both my son and daughter have become very good computer users.  It is no surprise since I spend a lot of my time online.  I do a wide range of things such as blogging, banking, research, creating Wordpress niche blogs, investing.  I also play many different video games when I can. 

My kids have taken a liking to computers and have developed pretty good skills already.  They love to play PC games and I have a pretty large archive.  My daughter (Aeriana 7 years) seems to prefer RPG’s and strategy games while my son (Logan 2.5 Years) prefers FPS first person shooters.

One day I was playing Left for Dead and I walked away to do something and left the game up. Well, Logan decided to go to the computer and start trying to play the game.  He already knew about moving around with the mouse and W,A,S,D combo because of previous games he had played.  Most first person shooters share the same standard of controls.  He really enjoys the game and is really good at it..  Check out this video of him playing.

He started really getting into it and asked to play it all the time.  I was amazed at first but started to become concerned that the game may be way too violent for a kid so young.  So I tried to get him into other games that were much less violent and horror related.  Regardless, he just seems really entertained by the game and wants to keep playing it.

I remind him all the time that that the game is not real and it is not good to shoot people because they can really get hurt and there is no coming back.  I have to admit that I am amazed to watch him play and watch him learn so fast.  Regardless, I will always guide him and make sure he understands right from wrong and that video games are not reality and they are for entertainment only.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY LOGAN!

My son just turned two today.  It makes me think back to the day he was born.  I remember being in the hospital room watching him being pushed out.  The birth of my two children have been the most interesting, exciting and unique experiences of my life.  There is nothing like it.  The very idea of child birth is amazing.  I remember watching his head peek it’s way out and the doctor trying to grab a hold of it. 

If you have never witnessed a live child birth then what you will see is the head come out first most of the time.  Very rarely the child will be born feet first, which they call a “breach” birth.  The doctor reaches inside and grabs a hold of the head of the child.  If necessary he will cut the women to create more room to grab the child.  When my son’s head came out the doctor reached in and grabbed his arm and literally twisted him out.

My son was born much larger than my daughter was which caused a slight complication.  Due to his large size he was taking up a lot of space in the uterus which diluted the strength of the embryonic fluid.  This in turn made it so that when my son had bowl movements in the womb it didn’t get filtered fast enough by the fluid and ended up making him a yellowish color when he came out.  My daughter came out a white color.

What is remarkable to see is when a child first comes out it looks almost fake like a doll.  It literally is not breathing at first, but then the doctor will rub the baby’s chest or something to stimulate the nerves which in turn causes the child to breath.  The head will usually come out slightly smashed looking, but as soon as the baby starts crying it’s body will puff back up into shape.  It is like nothing you ever seen before.  It looks unreal.

After that they will start to clean up the baby and suck the remaining fluid out of its mouth.  Then the nurses will take the baby into the nursery to perform many other after birth procedures.  During that time the doctor will be stitching up the mother, remove the afterbirth and stop any excess bleeding, etc.

Here he is now already two years old.  He is starting to talk a lot (babbling words you can’t understand yet), he climbs on everything and gets into everything.  He often tries to explain situations that happen to him to me but I just can’t make out the words.  He will use hand gestures, noises and facial expressions too.  Amazing stuff!  Anyway, this post is dedicated to my descendant.  May he be stronger, faster, smarter and more successful with women than I ever was.