Elijah is much too comfortable with lots of things today, including, but not limited to, the NICU and my computer.

Last Wednesday sucked with him in the NICU – actually the whole evening sucked – but it started when he first got in there, walked right up to Kayleigh’s bed and started lowering it with the foot pedal thing, despite my telling him to stop. Halfway through the evening, he decided he was going to see Kayleigh again while in the waiting room and took off down the hall to the NICU like he was just going to go in alone – I had to chase him down. The last thing that night was him crawling around on the NICU floor while the nurse practitioner was talking to me. Another nurse gave him hand sanitizer and my friend took him back to the waiting room.

Oy.

Then tonight, he is freaking out down at my computer. I log in via remote desktop and I can’t see anything wrong. Eventually I go down there and sure enough, despite my creating him his own login and trying to block him from anything and everything but his games… he managed to get into the control panel, open the settings for the video card, and turn the whole screen upside down. What an adventure that was. Do you know how hard it is to get the mouse to go where you want it to go while the screen is upside down? Very confusing! I ended up logging back in with remote desktop and fixing it from there.

Yes, he’s way too comfortable with things he should not be comfortable with! Yesterday, also in the NICU, when I was going to hold the baby, the nurse lifted up the top of the incubator bed with the foot pedal. Seconds later, Elijah says, “Oh, so that is how you lift that up,” like he was making a mental note of it for future reference.

Crazy kid. Really, I think the problem is his exceptional memory. :-P