PSP Slim

This is Hannah-related, so I'm going to post here.

A few weeks ago (probably 2 weeks ago) while daddy was at an EQ activity Saturday evening, Hannah & I were invited to our next door neighbor's house for a BBQ with peeps from the neighborhood. Well, after dinner, Hannah was playing with a PSP Slim that was "laying around." She was curious and messing with it, and I thought it's okay, and didn't take it away from her. Plus she was next to the couch with 2 high schoolers playing with their PSPs.

A bit later, I looked over to the living room, and Hannah no longer had the PSP. One of the high schoolers had it and there was more than just one solid piece in his hands. The PSP was in two pieces. At first I thought, oh she just undid the battery cover (like she does with our remotes). Alas, if only that simple. Nope. Our sweet little Hannah had chewed through the disk cover, popped it off, and broke it from the spring. Since this was my 1st encounter with a PSP slim up close, I didn't realize how the spring-loaded cover UMD drive worked. Upon closer inspection, I realized this was a greater problem than I thought.

Our neighbor was pretty cool about it, just wanted it fixed. But I was stressed out b/c I had no idea what it'd cost to fix, how to fix it, etc... I just knew I didn't want to have to buy a new PSP.

So needless to say, that night I went home and researched a bunch of stuff on the internet about PSPs, figured out WHAT needed to be fixed, and bought the new part (the door) to fix the PSP. Thank goodness for Ebay! able to get it a lot cheaper than it'd be otherwise and waaay cheaper than I thought it'd be.

I waited patiently for the part to arrive in the mail. But when it did arrive, I was busy with photography stuff, and so dh attacked the PSP project. Well, apparently our tools were not quite small enough. So I took all the parts of the PSP slim that he'd taken apart and put them in a baggie.

Fast forward another week...Friday night. Dh had gone to Lowe's earlier in the evening and picked up a couple of things to work on our backyard and other stuff (including surprising me with an orchid plant - YAY! - and a 000 phillips head screwdriver). While I put Hannah to sleep tonight, dh started fixing the PSP...again. And by the end of the night, he got it all put back together! Phew!

We were careful about what we let Hannah get into before, but then I grew more lenient. So now I am much more careful again. She is one clever girl. She uses her teeth to open lots of caps, bottles, etc. And she can get into a lot more than you'd think. She's usually really good about not getting into stuff she's not supposed to, but curiosity most times wins over with novel items.

She's so cute about things that it's hard to get upset at her because she's really rather bright and she's exploring and learning about the world around her.