An attractive toy

Magnetic you might even say... Quinn has just discovered magnets on our filing cabinet. He's been playing away happily, learning to attach the magnets and take them off again, making his "interested" growling sound the whole time.

Apparently his growling sound is quite unique, according to a drop-in worker today. He growls all the time, with different inflections seemingly implying different meanings. He's in a verbal phase again after coming through a big physical locomotion phase.

He has also cottoned onto pulling himself up to standing these last couple days. He does so with aplomb now, and doesn't even look proud of himself any more, having mastered the skill for over 24 hours now.

Quinn and Luther (our 16lb black cat) were playing together today, unstaged. Quinn had his "light-saber", a 4' long pipe insulator, and he was waving it around. Luther, lying nearby, started batting at it. Quinn was quite interested by that, and started purposely waving the light-saber near Luther, and giggling when Luther batted it. It went on for 10 minutes or so. It was sort of like that moment I imagine when one's first kid and second kid play together for the first time unprompted. Hopefully it's a friendship Quinn and Luther will share for years to come.