Growing up in the Age of Technology

It seems that it's a truth: when ones grow up with technologies just part of your environment, you take to them like any other constant of your world. Lately, I've been seeing this with Townshend.

A few months ago, he figured out how to navigate my iPod. He doesn't really read, but he can recognize word shapes and letters, plus some albums have pictures. He's figured out how to turn shuffle on and off and how to pick and choose different sorting methods; all together, he can find most anything in there that he wants most of the time. 

I keep the iPod on airplane mode ('cuz who needs internet on an iPod??) but that keeps him from stumbling upon anything too untoward. And so, for the last few weeks, he's been playing with the iPod during his quiet time. And he enjoys being able to pick and choose which songs to listen to and when. Then, he figured out there was more to do on there than just listen to music. And in airplane mode, the camera and video are still very much functional. 

He's so very proud of his work! Taking pictures of outside, taking videos of his cars and various other toys, etc. He enjoys showing them to me. Then, after about a week (afraid of maxing out my memory space) I finally uploaded his pictures and movies onto the computer so I could make more space for future compositions. 

In a week, there were about 380 something files to be taken off. Here is a sampling of some of my favorites:

As he calls it, "All the Green ones"

Reality at our house:

Portraits:

More things around the house:

Then, he turned to his books. Here's a few:

one all about animals

one all about Monster trucks - "All the wheels"

one about the 50 states (in varying levels of focus)

Plus, at least 15 like this:

And this cute one:

It's fun to see how things look from his point of view. And who knows, maybe this is the beginning of a new passion for photography.