Ianite in Film

Elaine and I took some video of Ianite at 13 months (more or less), so everyone can spend 2 minutes of their day experiencing his cuteness.
I am struck by how quickly his activities have gone from being random and uncoordinated to being purposeful and skillful.
His first new game is inserting things through the slot in a small footstool we have. It is like a piggy bank for random thin objects.
His other new game is gathering things and placing them into his basket. Actually, it's the utensil basket from our dishwasher. Which makes it guaranteed to be about the cleanest thing in the house. I can't explain why gathering is so particularly cute. Perhaps it is because of how intentional and purposeful it is. Or perhaps because there is some deep-seated desire to pick up and accumulate - like shopping for groceries, or the harvesting of dung beetles for soup by a primitive hunter-gatherer.



This also serves as proof for a certain unbelieving uncle that Ian can indeed walk . . .