Guitar Hero

Even more than he likes listening to his father play the guitar, Aaron likes to play it himself. Initiallly, he was transfixed by the sounds coming from this oddly shaped object, but before long he rolled himself over and reached up to pluck a string.

That turned out the be just about the most amazing thing ever. Before long he was strumming away and getting annoyed when Dad tried to get in the way, or perhaps more importantly, tried to pry his death-grip from the very thin high-E string. Emergency Room Attendant: "...Ummm, and how did your 9 month old slice off his fingertip, exactly?" No, we really don't want to go through that.




Fortunately, he is slowly figuring out that a gentler touch on the strings actually makes a better sound. Of course, there is an electric guitar in the house as well, so one day we might regret this. Oh well, at least it's not drums...

Oh, and if you are wondering about the Luvs diaper box in the background, you'd be surprised what an excellent toy a diaper box can be. You can put a toy in the box, then look in the box, see your toy, then take your toy out of the box. Then put your toy back in the box. You can slide the box around on the floor. you can stick your finger in the handle holds on the ends of the box. You can point at the baby on the side of the box. You can stand the box on end and play peek-a-boo with mommy. You can watch a rolly dinosaur roll to you across the top of the (inverted) box, then pick it up and throw it back on top of the box for someone to roll it to you again. Then you can put toys that don't roll on top of the box and see if they will roll to you (they don't) and then finally you can put the rolly dinosoaur back on the box and wait for it to roll back to you.