Did you know you can play Settlers of Catan (our favorite board game) on the iPhone or Touch? The app is called Catan. Jane and I have been trying it out.

Pro: no tiles and small pieces for the baby to scatter.

Con: the computer-generated characters do too much trading.

Pro: clean, clear graphics and efficient gameplay.

Con: unattractive cartoonish characters (are we shallow?) and it’s harder to monitor your opponents’ moves and resources.

Pro: just about as much fun as the real game, and we can play it anywhere.

You can play with up to four people, taking turns passing the iPod around. Or you ...

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Did you know you can play Settlers of Catan (our favorite board game) on the iPhone or Touch? The app is called Catan. Jane and I have been trying it out.

Pro: no tiles and road pieces for the baby to scatter.

Con: the computer-generated characters do too much trading.

Pro: clean, clear graphics and efficient gameplay.

Con: unattractive cartoonish characters (are we shallow?) and it’s harder to monitor your opponents’ moves and resources.

Pro: just about as much fun as the real game, and we can play it anywhere.

You can play with up to four people, taking turns passing the iPod around. Or you ...

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Beanie, upon tasting (and loving) her first green smoothie: “This has liquified my distaste for spinach!”

I sleep with my iPod under my pillow. No, not because I love it so much that I can’t stand to be parted from it even while sleeping, but because I am nursing my 11-month-old, and the Touch lets me read in the dark, with one hand, without disturbing the baby or my slumbering husband.

6:20 a.m. It’s still dark when I wake. In a few minutes I will try to slip out of bed without rousing the baby—Scott is already up with Wonderboy, our earlybird—but right now, in this peaceful hush before the rest of the gang arises, I stretch ...

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