McKenzie Walks: The Proof

Mama got it on video.

McKenzie Walks

McKenzie is really walking. She's been walking for a few days now. I tried to get it on camera, but she'll only walk when the camera's not looking. She'll take up to four or five steps on her own. Pretty cool. And she's not even ten months old yet.

Puzzles & Trains

Did I tell you about my other hobbies? One of them is doing puzzles. I can do a puzzle of 24 pieces in about 5 minutes. Mama says that's amazing. Daddy says it's cause I'm smart. I think it's just because I have high spatial intelligence. Here's a video of me finishing a puzzle.



And here's another of me starting a different puzzle.



My other hobby is playing with trains. Here's a picture of me with the train tracks. Daddy helped me set up this one.

Boogers

While Mama was putting me and McKenzie in the car this morning, she noticed that McKenzie had a booger and wiped it up. McKenzie gets boogers, but they're easy to see and clean up. Mine aren't quite that way, so I commented to Mama.

"My boogers are up in my head," I said.

For some reason, she thought that was funny. But at least she knows now why I have to dig so hard to find them.

Oh, McKenzie was jealous about my video of me reading, so here's one of her.

Gravity

My new hobby is to throw things up into the air and see if I can get them to land on my head - things like game pieces, coins, and toys. I'm getting pretty good at it. The trick is to not use anything that's too heavy. That way I get a better bounce off my head.

Something wierd happened today, though. I was throwing up a quarter, waiting for it to hit my head or land on the floor, and then picking it up and doing it all over. Then one time, I threw it up and it disappeared. My dad told me that for it to reappear, I should close my eyes, put my hand in my pocket, and jump on one foot. Sure enough, when I did that, the coin dropped.

So, I kept throwing and dropping the coin again until, it suddenly disappeared again! This time, my dad didn't even have to tell me. I immediately put my hand in my pocket, closed my eyes, and jumped on one foot. And the coin dropped again! My folks thought it was so funny, but I figure if you follow the instructions right, it's bound to work.

Well, after a few times through that same cycle, I think I started to catch on. Dad was just catching the coin out of mid-air when I couldn't see. And when I'd do the hand-in-pocket, eyes-closed, one-footed jump, he would just drop it again while I had my eyes shut. He and Mama had a good laugh about it. They're going to laugh even harder when I put a snake in their bed...