Surroundings
September 15th, 2007
Watching The Tornado in action often has on lookers baffled as she tends to run around bouncing off furniture and walls, tripping over toys and other obstructions, walking off steps, the couch, or the bed as if they are completely flat, and (my personal favorite) running, diving, and barrel rolling. Basically, she seems to wonder around aimlessly and seemingly unaware of her surroundings. Of course she knows when people are around and she doesn’t simply walk into doors and walls, but she just seems real clumsy.
So I took The Tornado out for a walk this afternnon and it was truly a beautiful September afternoon, warm enough for short sleeves with a wonderful breeze to keep you from sweating. I took her to her favorite kind of park, not the ones that dad thinks are amazing with fancy jungle gym structures and large twisty slides. The Tornado prefers a plain old soccer field where she can just run around and throw her Winnie the Pooh kick ball for hours of fun. As we were walking back the tornado was pointing and laughing and pointing and babbling with the occasional “that.” She pointed out a nearby squirrel shelling an acorn and was mesmerized for a few minutes. Then as we walked further she pointed out a white tailed pigeon and was elated when it flew away and followed it as it flew across our path. By now we reached the road we live on and it is a pretty busy road with plenty of cars drive by and the tornado didn’t seem to care as they passed by, but she seemed amazed when a van pulling a trailer drove by and followed it down the street.
It didn’t take me long to realize and appreciate how much my little seventeen month old has progressed. Normally during our walks or play time I would try to point things out to her and she would seem either ambivalent or simply uncaring as I tried to show her objects. Now when I point she looks or, even better, she is pointing out objects to me before I see them. Everyday she amazes me.
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Sure, go out without me, have a blast, and then come back here to rub it in my face. I see how it is. LOL