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Hi. I'm Amanda...a happy wife and mom to three awesome guys. We've lived here in Fort Collins for more than 20 years and are proud to call it home. Before moving to CO, I worked at a city attorney's office, making use of my law and Master's degrees from Duke. After settling in Fort Collins, I homeschooled my three (now teenage and older) sons and was delighted to experience music classes, soccer, karate, swim team, archery, Science Olympiad, First Lego League, parkour, and climbing (not all at the same time!). From 2005-10, I was also a contributing editor for a national scrapbooking magazine, authoring a book and a couple of monthly columns. From 2009-10, I founded and ran the Good Grief Blog. I enjoy learning new things, spending time with my family, volunteering with The Matthews House, traveling and indoor rock climbing.

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Wednesday
Mar232011

Gotta love the apps...

DateWednesday, March 23, 2011 at 03:18PM

So, earlier today, Micah comes running into my room clutching Nathan's old iphone (which we let the boys use for the various apps). He informed me that he now wanted only to be called "Mike." 

I asked why. (He's gone through these phases before...insisting his name was "Gob Gob" or that we call him "Little Mike Brother" and such. I asked merely out of curiosity.)

Out pops the iphone. He showed me the screen and then laughed hysterically:

Yup. Little bugger was playing with an app called CheckWord that we've used from time to time while playing Scrabble. He was having a blast and delighted in showing me that "Mike is GOOD" and "Micah is BAD" according to the screen. He thought it funny that "Asher is BAD" but "Ash is GOOD" but felt jipped that "Noah is GOOD" right off the bat. 

Couldn't help but smile at that one. ;) So, I cuddled him (as he's the only one who still lets me) and we sat on the bed trying out all sorts of other words. He thought it was wonderful that "Bad is GOOD." I figure it's actually time well used since 1) the app is teaching him familiarity with a keyboard configuration as he hunted and pecked for those letters; 2) the app encouraged spelling practice; and, 3) the app provided a reminder on the difference between proper and common nouns (and then some explanation about Scrabble rules, lol). Happy sigh. Gotta love it. :) 

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