Recently, Cory, my brother-in-law and one of my co-workers, jokingly accused me of changing his XP profile picture to a duck. This happened several times and Cory suspected both me and my brother Ethan. One night, when the whole family was together after supper we started talking about this mysteriously changing profile picture. Cory was convinced that me or Ethan was responsible for the change.
Soon, we started asking Kristen's kids. Elise, the oldest said she hadn't and Ian said the same. Then we got to Merry Grace, who is 3 years old said that she has changed her daddy's picture to a duck. We were all incredulous, I mean, she is THREE YEARS OLD. So to test this out I asked her sweetly:
Me: "Merry Grace, could you help me change my computer picture?"
MG: "Sure, Uncle Adam"
Still incredulous, I took her over to my computer while we all crowded around the screen. Merry Grace clicked the start button, clicks on my profile picture, scrolls down to her favorite (the duck), picks it, hits apply, exits the screen, clicks start again to show my new picture (now a duck) and says:
MG: "That's how you change it Uncle Adam. I like the duck, its my favorite."
We stared in disbelief. I know that kids are getting more and more technologically comfortable from a young age, but never in a million years would I have suspected that the culprit to Cory's changing profile picture prank was the work of a three year old little girl.
One other quick little computer story. The other day Elise, (8 years old), was in the kitchen.
"Mommy," she asked "can we use Google Chrome on Netflix?" At the time, Netflix didn't support Chrome, but it now does. Kristen told Elise no, and Elise said:
"That's lame. Google Chrome is my favorite browser. I hate using Internet Explorer because it is so slow, and Firefox takes forever to load up."
It was a moment of pride for me. My 8 year old niece is already using and prefers Google Chrome to the other browsers. Logan's computer app teacher didn't even know what he was talking about when he told her that he used Google Chrome. Kids these days...
I love the stories!