Niftier than I anticipated

While visiting my folks, Calla was using my dad's handheld solitaire game as a phone - walking around their house with it open like a flip-style cell phone. So, because she liked it so much, and against my protests (i.e. slipped in a bag when we weren't looking), he sent it home with us for her. She has plenty of toy phones here, I might add - a few of which are old cell phones with the battery pulled out.

So while she does still sometimes use the solitaire game in this fashion, she typically is using one of the other phones. Or her cup. Or whatever else she grabs. (Plan for calling us on our cell vs. on the home line when Calla gets older - I foresee her being on the phone quite a bit)

Since she doesn't use the game that much now, I've taken to playing it. Now, I wasn't sure how much anyone here would use it, beyond Calla's phone rotation - but I *love* it. It's addictive! My thought had been, "But I usually have the computer up. I can play spider solitaire on it". This handheld game, though, is backlit - so playing after the earlier-to-bed members of the household go to bed can be done without the light-up-the-room (and attract-every-gnat-in-the-house) effect of the monitor.

I would have bought one for myself long ago had I realized I would like it so much!

And now, to shut down the comp and play solitaire. Night! :)