Monday, April 6, 2015

Madeleine versus the Machine

Joseph bought himself a new toy – a MiP Robot.  It’s a really neat toy, it moves around on the same technology as a Segway and he controls it with an app he downloaded on his iPhone!

We sat Maddie down to watch the robot. She was very interested in it.  Joseph let it go back and forth, and spin around and even dance!  The MiP accidentally hit Maddie on the foot and fell over and said “OH!”. Maddie started to cry as soon as it happened!  We do not know if she cried because it hit her and “hurt” her (it’s not big so it didn’t hit her very hard), or if she cried because it fell over. 

A couple of days later, we showed my mom the MiP and told her how Maddie got upset after it fell over and hit her.   She held Maddie and Joseph ran the MiP again and did the same thing. This time he ran it into the rug where it fell over. Maddie got upset again!  Joseph ran the MiP again (not letting it fall over) but Maddie still whined and cried.  

We decided to try it again a third time and wanted it on video.  The video is below.  You can see Maddie is very interested in it and follows it around on the floor. When it falls over, she gets upset.  She is upset when it spins and when it falls over again.

Our poor girl!!  So we won’t be playing with it around Maddie for a while.  Maybe she’ll grow to like it later, or we will try to make it not fall over....



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