My daughter has been playing ToonTown more lately. As I watch her play, it really is a kick. I keep wondering why she does the things she does.

My nephew was over yesterday so we showed him ToonTown and let him run around with one of her characters. He learned how to fish (and really liked it) and then we took him out to her estate to see the houses and the Doodles.

My daughter has made some interesting design decisions in some of her houses. I keep seeing either all of the furnishings up in the attic, or everything crammed randomly into one room in the house. I swear she had a chair sitting on top of a fireplace mantle!

My toon, Poppy, had all of her furniture in one room, and there seemed to be a lot more furniture than I remembered buying - and I seem to be broke. I suspect the two are related.

The poor Doodles were all begging for attention and it doesn't look like she's watered any of the flowers or gag trees lately. Sigh.....

When she's playing on her own and 'in the zone' she usually has a running monolog with the screen. She's got some sort of back story she's playing out in her head and I'll hear her yelling orders at the screen or just narrating her stories to herself.

I still have hopes of hooking my nephew into playing so she'll have someone else I know to adventure with. He's only about two months older than her, but he's a typical kid (she has autism) and tries to look out for her. I did mention casually (yeah, right) that I had mentioned the game to his mommy because I thought he might enjoy it, and that he could always ask her about it....