Promotes Toddling

In just the last few days something small but notable happened: Jonah started towing around his toddling pull-toys -- of which he has several -- and get this, 'cause this is the important part: he's towing them by their string!

Pull-toys seem to be popular baby gifts, and for going on 20 months now we've had a bunch of them lying around. But never once (until just now) has Jonah shown the slightest interest in using them in their intended manner. So, naturally, we had eventually concluded that the whole pull-toy industry was just a hoax designed to sell more toys to witless parents. Then - lo! - out of nowhere Jonah starts pulling the toys around like he's read some sort of manual on how to act like a baby.

So, go figure, from time to time these toys really do get used as intended. I'm sure it's only going to be a couple months more before Jonah learns that a pull-toy, when whirled about by its string, makes a convincing facsimile of a medieval mace.

But in the meantime, it's pretty darn sweet to watch him tow his wooden snail (and his musical turtle, and his bear-in-a-boat...) around by its string.