When my kid walks

In my previous post I wrote about the joyous moment when my kid took his first steps, & I also mentioned about the tiring moments that followed. This post talks about some of those "other" moments.

Earlier we were constantly worried with the thought "if he continues to crawl, he might hurt his knees"; now we are constantly worried with the thought "if he falls, he will hurt his head". Ironically & sadly, our former worry never turned into reality whereas latter keeps occurring every now and then.

Since, walking is Piku's newly found hobby, so wants to keep doing that all the time. Top of the chart activity is tripping over stuff that is usually invisible to us. Second position goes to throwing unimportant objects like mobile phones, remote controls, watches etc. at unpredictable & often unreachable locations (unreachable = uncomfortably reachable ). Third favorite is to make us walk after him, continuously, accompanied with multiple sets of our toe-touching exercises to pickup stuff (it seems that he wants us to be back in shape). Fourth one is to search for sources of garbage, dirty water etc. & play splish-splash until we dispose the material (I think he is on mission of cleanliness). Another favorite is to chase tiny insects right to their habitats (or outside our habitat). The list is long, very long.

It won't be wrong to say that he wants to keep walking while eating, drinking, even while sleeping. Wondering how does he manages to do the last one? Well, when put to bed, he would immediately recoil like a spring to standing position and then start strolling on the bed. He would stay in motion unless-
a) we again make him lie down
or
b) he becomes too sleepy to continue walking

For either of the actions, he would bounce back. This pattern would continue to recur until he is too sleepy to spring back. When this happens, walking gets converted into rolling. Eventually, he would go & fall asleep near his mom's feet; and the scene looks like visual version of age old phrase " माँ के चरणों में स्वर्ग होता है! "