Months ago, I created a PBS Sprout Online account for Cole. The site has age appropriate games and video clips and is PBS affiliated so it does not have commercials or gimmicky "stuff". Cole has displayed an affinity for our computers long ago so we figured that we might as well give him his own outlet for learning how to manipulate the mouse (fine motor skills) and give us another media form to help him count, learn colors and shapes et al.
Once I created his profile, I downloaded his photo which we could utilize by putting him into the clips with the characters. He loves watching himself on screen bopping around. Obviously we had to give permission to PBS to use his picture should they choose to use his photograph and all that legal jumbo before being allowed to complete his profile.
So five months later I get an email from Sprout Online stating that Cole's pic would be used in a segment in their PICME show. Randomly chosen from thousands of kiddos, Cole made his TV debut on September 9, 2008! It was an exciting moment that I was able to capture with our video camera since we do not have a DVD player (I know, I know, many of you live by those but Dave and I were trying not to let TV dictate our lives...we may cave but thus far we have survived without it).
Anyway, it was a fun and unanticipated snippet to add to his life's adventures.
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