Tonya and PQBON's WebLog
While Tonya and I were separated from Katie for our move we made time each evening to communicate with her. One night while we were trying to talk to Katie on the phone it occurred to me that because my mother also has a Mac Book Pro could do better then the phone.
I was typing away on my Mac Book Pro when Tonya was starting the conversation with Katie. I happed to have iChat open and it dawned on me that iChat allows the use of the iSight camera with the AOL AIM protocol.
I had my mother send me her screen name. I added her to my contact list. Then I initiated a video chat with her.
Katie almost exploded when her mommy and daddy appeared on the screen in front of her. On the phone she would never talk much and mostly liked to hit the buttons. On the video chat she was animated and happy. On the phone we can normally get her to blow us a kiss or two but on the computer she would bend in and kiss the screen (would couldn't see the kiss since the iSight is above the screen and her head would block the iSight but my mother would describe to us what she was doing). She did this relatively frequently. She talked and sang. She counted to 10 for us and answered questions. She was really excited and babbled constantly.
The first night we did this she got very very upset when Tonya and I had to go. The second night was a lot easier for her to say goodbye. It may have been due to the fact that the second time we were at a Starbucks because our cable modem had been disconnected. It was hard for us to hear her and she may not have been hearing us that well either.
Posted by pqbon at September 9, 2007 11:06 PM