Katie and I had a heated discussion the night before last. We were sitting on the couch watching Jon Stewart when she noticed a large, apparently cancerous growth sticking out of the bottom of my foot. She asked what the big lump in my sock was. "That's my toe," I responded, nonplussed. I had crossed my first and second toes, causing a lump to protrude from the bottom of my sock. Katie was quite alarmed. "You can cross your toes?" "Sure, can't you? Everyone can cross their toes!" "Of course I can't cross my toes. Who can cross their toes?" And I confirmed that Katie could not, in fact, cross her toes. Even manipulating her toes with my fingers, I could not get her toes to stay crossed. She just has very short toes. That led, of course, into a discussion of who was the freak. Were my long, crossable toes abnormal, or were her stubby, uncrossable phalanges the outliers? In case you're confused, here are some pictures. First, of my v...
We are officially halfway through Max's first year. He had his six-month checkup yesterday and is hale and hearty aside from the vaccination shots he received.
Most impressively, Max now has (a) amazing manual dexterity along with (b) astounding physical strength. Watch him demonstrate this as he (a) plays with his pacifier and (b) rolls over onto his stomach! (He had already mastered rolling over from his stomach onto his back.) He also flashes some of his winning smiles.
Insanely cute!
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ReplyDeletehe will be walking next.
ReplyDeletegreat video! I liked how Max kept us in suspense for almost a full minute before rolling over. :)
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