Meet My New Tech Support

Mark my words: in a couple of years, this kid will be hacking into government supercomputers for fun.

I’ve been having sporadic internet service the past few days, making reading blogs and posting difficult. My suspicions first fell on our internet provider – Time Warner has been nothing but unreliable in service, but for this particular problem I think they’re not to blame, amazingly.

We’ve narrowed the problem down to our four year old wireless router, which in networking years is practically an ancient relic. I think it’s time to put it out of its misery and look into replacing the router tomorrow.

Or I could always call in my pint-sized electronics guru to fix it. At 14 months she can already open a new browser window, switch users, shut down a computer, eject a CD, run a virus updater, turn on closed captioning and change channels on the TV, record a program on Tivo, and make a phone call.

If it’s electronic, it has to be hidden or Mira will go for it the second we look away. We bought her a laptop of her own in the hopes that she’d leave ours alone. No dice – she still thinks our laptops are better.

Maybe I’ll give her the old router?

Can you get me an ethernet cable? I can’t get a wireless signal on this thing.
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Comments

  1. Cute! >_< For the interests she’s shown so far? This kid is Adam and I rolled into one.

  2. Too cute 🙂

  3. So cute!! If she’s that techno savvy at 14 months just imagine where she will be in 14 years!

  4. such a cute photo!

  5. i cannot even tell you what my five-year-old can do with a computer. it boggles the mind.

  6. Amelia Sprout says

    Wow, remind me never to get on that girls bad side. You weren’t kidding about her looks.

    We gave M her very own keyboard recently, she’s still trying to figure out why it doesn’t do funny things to our computers.

  7. I wish they would make kids’ computers/toys like that look more like the real thing. Toy phones and whatnot too. P never likes those things – she prefers my 1976 Nokia.

  8. The Domesticator says

    She is so precious!

    I have Time Warner, too and constantly have problems. So much so, that I’m looking into switching. I hope the new router solves the problem.

  9. What a doll!

  10. T with Honey says

    They need to make a V-Tech that looks just like our laptops. No bright, fancy colors. No cartoon characters. It has to be a duplicate of mommy’s. And then mommy has to be seen playing with it for child to have any interest.

  11. How adorable is that! But, you are right, our laptops are way better in terms of destructing!

  12. That caption is hysterical!! What a great pic.

    What a whiz on the coomputer.

  13. mothergoosemouse says

    OMG that picture. Her little feet, the outstretched arm, that trademark IT support tech pout…

  14. Oh my god, look at those long legs! Miss Mira is getting so big!!!

  15. Anissa Mayhew says

    Sorry, she will be FAIL for tech support.

    1. Too much hair, receeding hairlines only need apply

    2. She will eventually speak fluent English

    3. She will eventually possess social skills…other than being a 39th level dungeon master

    But i definitely see a blog in her future!

  16. Condo Blues says

    Could you send Mira over to my house? I have a computer half built in the case and I don’t have the time or interest to finish installing the hard drives.

    I will pay in cookies. The good kind. The super duper sugery kind that Mommy wont’ let you have.

  17. Amelia Sprout says

    Hey, I’m IT tech support and I don’t look anything like that Anissa. 😉

    And DM’s don’t have levels, everyone knows that. 😛

  18. Wow, smartiepants! Sage does all those things but generally by accident.

    Although she did call Grandpa on the iPhone and that sort of blew my mind.

  19. Oh my gosh! She is so adorable and I can’t believe how fast she’s growing! I still remember the photos of her as a baby.