Race

I can run very fast.



Go! Go! Go!

I started walking

Yoghurt

Yoghurt be my favourite right now

Happy mother's day

Practising my walking

That Lovin' Spoonful

Mum has been teaching me to use the spoon. At least some of the stuff goes in there, honest!



My teeth are now showing more than ever:



I was trying to figure out the remote control but it's just a wee bit too complicated for me yet. (Tastes good, though!)



Chillaxin with dad on Saturday:

Camera eating

Mum and dad have a new camera.
My verdict?
Delicious!

Rummaging

Mum says that since I came back from Holiday, I've been much busier rummaging around in things. Handbags are a particular favourite. Also the pram bag. The kitchen drawers. The magazines under the coffee table. The coals in the gas fire.



Here's what happened when I got left alone to do my worst with the bedroom cabinet:




Well after that, the video ran out, but let's just say it was downhill from there:

Hee hee! Where next?!

Crawling

Now I'm crawling, mum says I'm much more of a handful...



We fly out to Miami tomorrow to see Grandma Fern and Grandpa Bob - I'm very excited! I'll post some pictures when I get there.

Finger Food

I have been learning to use my finger s to eat - here I am enjoying a chunk of banana:



Mmmm delicious!

Learning to walk

Dad has been helping me practise my walking. We now go for a stroll every morning after breakfast.

Baby Einstein

Little is known about the early life of Albert Einstein, other than that he was born in Ulm and moved to Munich at an early age. It is reputed that his parents fostered in the young Albert a love of classical music.

Some have postulated that this early tutoring may have had a formative effect on the young Einstein's impressionable mind, being one causative factor of his singular genius. The irony in this theory is that, from an early age, Einstein himself was familiar with the precepts of Kantian philosophy and the methodology of deductive reasoning - therefore, he would have laughed at the simplistic assumptions and myriad non-sequitirs which are required to sustain this theory of cause (childhood exposure to classical music) and effect (the phenomenon of "genius", however defined).

Nonetheless, this theory is the central conceit of the Baby Einstein Company (slogan: "Where discovery begins"). The Company was founded by Julie Ainger-Clark a decade ago as a start-up toy manufacturer and it has since mushroomed into a fully-fledged cultural meme in its own right. It was recently sold by its founders to the Walt Disney Company for a sum reputed to be in the hundreds of millions of dollars. Clearly this is a venture which makes sense on a business level, if not on a philosophical one.

Indeed, President Bush is a big fan of Baby Einstein - and he's the president, so he must be intelligent, right?

Anyway, all of this is a prelude to telling you that, despite my misgivings regarding the misappropriation of the name of one of the 20th century's greatest thinkers as a marketing tool for chew toys, I myself am a patron of the Baby Einstein Company and a dedicated user of their products.

In the video below, you can see me enjoying their latest invention, the pithily titled Discover & Play (TM) Activity Center (sic), which happens to be one of my favourites. As you can see, it is an object I am able to appreciate with discernment, on an intellectual as well as a cultural level.

The ascent of man

I've been practising crawling. Not quite there yet, but I'll keep on trying!



I was weighed last week and the lady told me I was too wee. Silly woman! She should know I am perfect in every way!

teething?

Could I be getting my first teeth? I keep sticking my fingers in there to find out...