January 7, 2012
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Lite Brite
For over 20 years, since my girls were little, I have had their old Lite Brite up in a closet, saving it for my grandchildren, and waiting for a day when they were old enough to enjoy it and we had enough time and needed something new to do!
So, today, I pulled it out! This was the first "picture" we made on it.
Amanda and Sam were attending a funeral, so I had lots of time with the kids, and a couple of hours when John was napping, to do Lite Brite with Charlie and Megan. I told them I had 3 rules:
1 - we only could play with it while John was napping, so that we wouldn't have to worry about the tiny pegs falling on the floor while he was crawling around.
2 - they had to share and not argue about it, or Grandma would put it away.
3 - they could only play with it if I was right there. The thing was so old and involved a very old plug-in light, so I wanted to make sure there were no problems.
The kiddos were great! Here they are, putting pegs into Lite Brite. I had a lot of these plain pages available, not many papers that had designs, and those were a little old for them. So, they just put the pegs in anywhere they wanted.
Well, I uploaded more pictures, but I am using Internet Explorer instead of Firefox. On Firefox, I can't link it to Facebook. Now on Internet Explorer, I have lost some of my pictures that had uploaded. Sigh.
Anyway, the kids enjoyed the Lite Brite. After they left, I got online to see if I could order some more picture papers from Amazon. They had them available, the rectangular ones for the old classis Lite Brite, even though the newer Lite Brites are completely different! So, I ordered more packages of picture papers, and by late afternoon, Amazon sent me an email that my order has been shipped!
Megan got tired of Lite Brite sooner than Charlie, and I was so happy to see her "reading" one of my quilt magazines!
Again, there were more pictures on here that have disappeared!
After awhile, the kids wanted to play with some other toys -
And then it was lunchtime! John was awake, so I gave him his lunch in the kitchen -
The older two ate in the living room while they watched a Signing video -
Then it was time to clean up, because Mommy and Daddy were on their way. They did a great job cleaning up, but John was pulling toys out as fast as Megan could put them away!
Time to go home! We had a great time, and we saw them at dinner time again when Jim and I picked up Chinese food and took it over!
Sigh - I guess I will have to go back to uploading pictures and typing my blog on one server and then getting out of that and switching to another server to link to Facebook. I wasn't pleased with losing pictures as I was typing this blog!
Comments (10)
At least you can upload and show your pictures. On this MAC I haven't mastered that yet.
@TheSunnyC - I know the pictures are still on xanga, but I couldn't access them on Internet Explorer when I tried to type my blog. And then when I tried to upload one that I couldn't find, the other uploaded one came up so I had two. Oh, well, I'll go back to my old way of doing it, which is more time consuming, but works, at least.
I think it's so cool that you have toys from your kiddos childhood! Such fun for your grandkids! They are so precious, too!
What a delightful post. Don't you love this stage of life we are in? We have fun playing with the grands and then they go home. But wait....by evening we are missing them and end up taking over supper to be with them again!! Smile!
About your server and facebook...I use Firefox and have my Xanga automatically set to make a link on facebook. I've not had a problem with it.
@PollythePatchworker - Polly, I have mine set the same way, and it worked well for a long time. Then all of a sudden, the past couple of months, it just won't link to facebook on Firefox. I have tried posting and then going back later to edit it with a link, but that hasn't worked either. So, I end up going to Internet Explorer and doing that - editing it with a link, and that usually works. So, this time I tried just doing it all on Int Exp, but my pictures wouldn't show up. Sigh.
IT's so neat that you have saved your girls' old toys. I did the same and love seeing their children playing with them.
I, too, can no longer link directly to facebook, with either Chrome or IE. Now I just paste the link to xanga onto my facebook site and upload one pic to go with it. Works fine, just takes one minute longer.
@AmericanJanet - Janet, I see now what you do! I'm not sure I am able to upload a picture onto facebook, though. All I have been able to do has been to edit my profile picture; I haven't figured out how to get other pictures up. All of my facebook pictures that you see on my site are ones that, either I was choosing as a profile picture, or someone else tagged me in. I'll give it a try next time, though.
Donna, when you're on facebook, on YOUR wall, it offers you to update status and/or add photo. That's where I choose the photo and then upload it...right there where I'm adding a status update.
Janet, so then your status update is the link you type in to your xanga site? And you can do the picture at the same time? I will try it all, as soon as I have another update to blog.
Lite Brite- hadn't thought of those little pegs in years. How fun that kids still like them. And how sweet that you have a new generation interested in quilting perhaps- how wonderful.
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