It arose out of a need to keep Elliot from messing with our laptops. He kept fiddling with them, banging on the keys and inducing strange alterations. For example, he turned on the "disabled" function on my laptop --- and in this case the disability was impaired hearing. Every time I did something the computer would annouce "opening file" in a loud voice.
So we bought these baby computer programs because they lock out the keyboard: once you start them, the kid can smack the keys all the day long and it has no effect on the rest of the computer.
The inadvertent side effect was for Elliot to fall in love with Humpty Dumpty. He walks around holding the cardboard box that the game came in, pointing to Mr. Dumpty and saying "Dumpty" over and over.
This particular video features Elliot playing his computer game and dancing along to "London Bridge is Falling Down." Due to excessive ambient noise (i.e. the sounds of the bricks of London Bridge falling) you can't really pick out that tune. Just trust me.
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