Walking Chair

Lautje is becoming increasingly mobile these days: crawling at the speed of light, convincing the Mommy and Daddy to carry him places (very efficient from his point of view), and lately... the Walking Chair...

As unbelievable as it may seem, Lautje discovered this trick all on his own, and now takes great joy in strolling around the living room just like a big boy. Or, to be more accurate, Lautje enjoys playing "bumper chairs" in the living room, running the chair into walls, furniture, even the odd slow-footed parent... In any event, it seems the days of crawling are numbered.

Grandpa's Boy

Just the other day, while hanging out with the boy in the kitchen, the Daddy decided to perform a little experiment to test a theory he had. Lautje's five magnets were lined up across the refrigerator in an orderly fashion. Naturally, such orderliness was an affront to Lautje's sense of disorder, a challenge to his troublemaking abilities that could not go unmet. So, as the Daddy foresaw, Lautje immediately set about taking them down one-by-one. As you can see, the white sheep from the middle was the first to go, in his left hand...
And then the pink pig, also in his left hand...
And then, after shuffling to the right, the brown cow, also in his left hand...
And after more side-shuffling, the tan cow, also in his left hand...
And then Lautje finished the job, shuffling sideways one last time, by removing the blue pig, in his left hand...
Which went some way to proving the Daddy's theory about Lautje: not that he dislikes order and prefers to destroy cleanliness (which, though also proven, hardly required such an experiment to verify what the Daddy has long known...), but rather that Lautje (at least in this stage of his development - though the Daddy still hopes it's a temporary affliction) is indeed a Grandpa's boy...

Don't Forget the Daddy

Of course, Lautje can also be a bit of a Daddy's boy at times too...