Walking in the Garden

Well, we were having a fun day earlier this afternoon.

Eddie's getting better and better at walking, altho he's still leery of unpaved surfaces and slopes. And last Saturday he was afraid he was doing it all wrong!

He'd gone with Daddy to the Science Carnival at the Cambridge Public Library, where we saw lots of cool things. There was a whole robot zoo full of robots. We almost just saw one robot, because the first one we saw was a Roomba cleaning up dirt, and Eddie was so fascinated that he just wanted to stop and watch that one indefinitely. Eventually I convinced him that that was the most boring robot there and we moved on. We saw robots that crawled like bugs, robots shaped like humans (about Eddie's size) that danced, robots that rolled on wheels and treads, flying robots. . . you name it. There was also an enormous hovering soccer ball. Eddie was a little frightened of that.

As we were heading out, we found two whole tennis courts full of booths of interesting things outside! We didn't have time to look at this very much, but Daddy's favorite exhibits were from the Museum of Mathematics, which it turns out recently opened in New York City. As we tried to find the exit, Eddie watched a little girl roll by on her shoes (which just looked like normal shoes.) He was really taken aback.  I could see him thinking:

"If you can just glide along like that without moving your feet and all this jazz. . . what have I been doing?!? Oh man I've made this WAY too hard for myself!"

Then he stood there for a minute trying to will himself to move without picking up his feet.