wheels

Thomas crawls all over the house, and sometimes faster than we realize. Today TC went into the BR to get something and Thomas went all the way from the living room around three corners down the hall to the garage to see me doing the recycling, all in less that 80 seconds. He gets pretty jazzed to crawl and it is usually to go get into something he wants to check out that has always been there before but now is part of his reality.
It is amazing how this one step in personal locomotion has made him so much more inquisitive, he has to check out everything now, and we are learning some things we thought sturdy are not so. Investigating is no longer touching and grasping and eventually putting things in mouth. That has now evolved into pulling, yanking , leaning on, pushing, or just shaking, all for the purpose of curiosity; not to trash things (like it appears to us).
Latest conquests includes three potted plants(crotons) and the kitchen trash(coffee grounds and all, naturally)..remember my post about the sense of humor? Well imagine a 8 month old boy proudly holding the wife's croton by the stem or over his head with the soil still falling of the roots in chunks around his giggling self...
His latest thing is to push anything with wheels/rollers, back and forth, over and over. Who knows what the next few weeks will bring!