Quinn Columbus

Quinn has entered the explorer phase. Boy has he entered it... He's into everything, and especially the things he knows he's not supposed to be in.

There is a small (~1.5" diameter) hole in the kitchen floor where an electrical wire used to pass through to the basement. When we redid the kitchen I took the easy way out and just covered it over with a tile, and over time the tile broke and got a hole in it. One of his kitchen toys is a wooden spoon. The other day Quinn discovered the hole in the floor and started reaming it out with his spoon, expanding it to the full size of the hole underneath. The next day he came back to the same hole with the xylophone mallet and dropped it through into the crawl space below. Looks like we've entered the Daddy-Retrieval phase of parenthood. Bec narrowly averted him dropping fridge magnets down the heating duct the other morning too.

He commando-crawls quite ably, and gets up on his knees to crawl occasionally now. He pulls himself up on furniture quite strongly now. That skill developed from nothing to quite capable in the short span of a week - the rate of development really is quite staggering! Before we know it he'll be staggering around on his own.