Our savior, little one.
Peekaboo Barn on the iPhone.
Just when we thought it might be necessary to strap you down to the changing table or shoot you with a tranquilizer dart to remove your diaper, Mommy found this simple, little iPhone app that has you mesmerized. It features a barn filled with farm animals. Touch the barn doors and they open to reveal a farm animal. The screen zooms in on the animals, the name of the animal appears on the screen, the animal makes an authentic sound, and then the cutest little voice in the world reads the name to you.
You love Peekaboo Barn. When you are playing this game, Mommy and I can do just about anything to you and you hardly notice. As I said, you are mesmerized.
And best of all, it’s actually teaching you. Already, you understand how the touch screen words, swiping the doors when the barn begins to shake (indicating an animal) and touching the animal to return to the barn. You’re also learning the names of the animals. Just last night, you repeated the word cat, clear as day, after the little voice said the word.
The best $1.99 that we’ve ever spent. Honestly, i it had given us just one day of peaceful diaper changes, that would have been worth it. But a week later, you still get excited when you hear the opening song play.
And a couple days ago, I found Peekaboo Wild, a game from the makers of Peekaboo Barn that features African animals hiding behind grass.
I often wonder what parents did to calm their screaming babies before these technological miracles.
Then I am reminded that my mother soothed me with paregoric, a Schedule III drug that was used as a household remedy in the 18th and 19th centuries to calm fretful children. In the twentieth century, it became regulated by the government, as it is an opium derivative, but some parents still applied it to the sore gums of teething children from time to time.
My mother was spoon-feeding it to me regularly. Eventually I found an open bottle, drank the whole thing, and had my stomach pumped.
See how lucky you are to have Peekaboo Barn, little one?
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