Bird Pee

What's with the title? Well, M discovered tonight that some toys have built in censors. For Christmas she received a princess computer... type thing. (I've tried to write that sentence about five times now and I have no idea what to call it.) We call it her computer. It has a little button keyboard and about five different games to play. One of the games is about getting a letter from Cinderella. Only, you get to type in the content.

M already knows how to spell a hand full of words. Mainly names of her favorite characters, people, and a few simple words like pat, hat, sat, etc. So she was calling for help tonight while she was in bed. I went in to see what she needed.

"Mom, I'm trying to type something but it won't let me hit 'OK'."

"What?" I grab the computer and look at it. 'Bird' is spelled in all caps. I sit down and hit the OK button. The game continues. "See, there you go." Problem solved.

"No." She scrolls back to the game and proceeds to type the word 'Bird' again.

"Honey, now just hit OK."

Completely ignoring me she continues typing. 'Pee'. Bird pee? Really? I didn't even know she knew how to spell the word bird, let alone pee. She hits OK and the word 'Pee' disappears. "See? It keeps going away."

I take the computer again and (out of her view) proceed to try to type other words I wouldn't want my four year old typing. Sure enough, it erases anything remotely bad. I then type 'P e e' and that works. I guess they couldn't think of everything. After a few minutes of trying to explain why the game won't let her keep that word, I hand it back (pee is harmless enough that I really don't care) and show her how to bypass the censor. She seems satisfied and I leave the room.

About ten minutes later I'm back in her room again and she tells me how terribly sad she is that the computer won't let her type Bird Pee. Holding back tears and saying things like, "I just really want to type Bird Pee." Like typing bird pee is her one and only dream. The whole time I'm just trying to keep a straight face.

We solved the problem by letting her type it on my phone. She typed it out (along with 100%--she has a strange obsession with 100) and then went to bed.

What's the deal with bird pee? I have no idea.