Thanks everyone for the BTDT advice. It's good to know that I'm not the only one that has gone through all this craziness. DD did decide to sleep on the weekend but I'm starting to think she could be really under-stimulated during the weekdays? The only times she's slept through the night have been when she was in daycare for one week while I was at a conference or over the holidays while visiting family members. So maybe she just needs to be around a bunch of people ALL THE TIME. I don't know... Because once Monday rolled around she was back to nap avoidance, ahh!!!
I think the appeal of the computer for her is really twofold: 1. she LOVES the songs. We realized today that she was actually singing part of the "a" song today so we joined in and she started doing all the hand signs, it was sooo cute!
I think I might try and go on there and learn some more of the songs to sing to her. I'm really bad about remembering to sing nursery rhymes and the such so it could be she wants more music in her life. She's always been a big fan of music and was in baby heaven when we took her to a free trial music class (but, unfortunately, we can't afford the $$).
2. Learn the letters. I just don't really do much of anything academic with her. We play A LOT, read, cook, etc. but I don't even really sing the alphabet song to her because I never think about it. I know she's always been interested in them and will ask me about them whenever she seems individual letters on signs etc. so maybe I should make a point of finding ways to introduce them to her.
I think DH might be the one to do the site with her more... he really LOVES it. Mostly because he's a non-native English speaker who learned pretty much entirely from osmosis. So it's actually really fun for him to learn about long and short vowels.
However, my husband refers to the adults that sing on there as "the creepy guy" and the "crazy lady".
As for some downtime for me I guess it won't be for awhile. She'll play with her dollhouse for a bit and today she was busy potty training her stuffed monkey, so hopefully he has a lot of misses and it'll take awhile!!! She tried putting the cat on there once, it didn't work as well...
I have to admit, that comment about her memorizing the books. I could definitely see that. She'll point at words a lot to find out their meaning, so who knows? She's really not into reading books in a linear fashion and will flip back at forth and really focus on certain pages at times. Oh, what I'd give to know what this kid is thinking!!!
About the pace of starfall. It's really the only kid site we've tried and I just found out about it from seeing people here talk about it. I kind of like the slow pace just because I remember reading somewhere that faster pace TV commercials are bad for kids, so I figured the same would apply here.
