My grandson Colin, now about 13 months old, was at our house last evening with his Mom and Dad. I've hardly seen him the past couple weeks and was overjoyed to have him around. Having Colin around is no task for the faint of heart. He is a whirlwind of activity and he leaves you breathless trying to babyproof the house. He finds "trouble" where you hadn't anticipated it. We block off the stairs to the second floor of the house, but when we took him out the front door for a little walk outside, he promptly tried to walk down the three steps--as if he were on flat ground. He simply has no concept yet of a safe way to go down steps (some 20 years ago, Colin's Aunt Emily developed an approach of sliding down a stairs step-by-step, all the while saying, "Emmy go down backwards. Emmy go down backwards."). Colin go down forwards--and fall down!
After dinner we were viewing some of our recent photographs on the television screen when Colin discovered a tiny blue light that indicated the tv's on-off switch. Of course he turned it off. He is very very sharp with cause and effect, and he liked this effect. When I turned the tv back on, he immediately located the tiny blue light again, and turned it off.
Colin is a blast--so much fun. And the boy can wear you out chasing him, trying to keep him safe and sound!
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