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<\/p>\nHannah \u2013 like us adults \u2013 goes through phases where she\u2019ll get really excited about a fun new toy or object every now and then. About a year ago, it was the ingenious \u201cWhere\u2019s My Water\u201d on the iPad. For the last fortnight, it\u2019s been a Disney interactive feature based on its successful Mickey Mouse Clubhouse TV series. The game is a pretty hefty download at nearly half a gig, but since its release a few months ago, remains a free app on the iTunes store.<\/p>\n
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The app has several segments that sees Hannah interacting using the touch screen and motion sensors. The entire show takes about half an hour each time or so from my best guess to play through, and Hannah has still yet to get tired of it even after having completed it at least a dozen times now. In fact, she loves the characters so much that I\u2019ve also started renting a bunch of episodes from the TV series too. At about the right time too, since we\u2019ve just finished our second complete viewing through the about 100 episodes of Stargate Atlantis<\/em>, and Ling remarked that we should start borrowing children\u2019s cartoons for Hannah to watch. I limit her playtime on the iPad or TV to about half an hour each evening though (for the rest of each evening, she’ll be pleading for more!).<\/p>\n While waiting for the MacBook Pro Retina to arrive \u2013 at this moment it\u2019s still stuck at some DHL warehouse in Shanghai \u2013 I\u2019ve been looking at children\u2019s operating systems to load up onto the MSI Wind for Hannah to start using. Still deciding which of the numerous Linux distributions to use!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Hannah \u2013 like us adults \u2013 goes through phases where she\u2019ll get really excited about a fun new toy or object every now and then. About a year ago, it was the ingenious \u201cWhere\u2019s My Water\u201d on the iPad. For<\/p>\n![\"blog-2012-hannah-OMD08829-mickeymouse-clubhouse\"](\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/blog-2012-hannah-OMD08829-mickeymouse-clubhouse.jpg\" "\\"blog-2012-hannah-OMD08829-mickeymouse-clubhouse\\"")