Friday, January 19, 2007

In honor of President Ford

I sympathize with our late President Ford, because I hear he used to fall down on camera a lot.



I was hoping not to unveil my walking skills until I had the perfect catwalk strut down, and I've been trying to practice in private moments for weeks now. But tonight dad whipped out the video camera and got me. The papa-razzi strikes again.

--Maddie

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Wow! Hardly 10 months and walking already! Don't tell Annabelle your secrets.

Barritt and Annabelle said...

Maddie -

The second stage of walking comes when you go to that bookshelf behind you and "teach" your parents that books really should be placed at least 48" off the ground.

Nonetheless, good work with stage one. I (Barritt) didn't have the heart to wear out my parents with walking until I was at least a year. I see that you may not be so hamstrung by the mores of parental reverence the culture tries to instill. May I also suggest that you start reading Ayn Rand to accelerate this disposition you obviously have?

Again, nice work.

B

Anonymous said...

Maddie, don´t rush or at least do not spread this kind of news!
My mom will stop carrying my around once she learns that it is possible for children under 15 to walk ...

Paul (strict non-walker)

Madeleine Hays said...

Dear Paul,

You can have it both! You can walk and still be picked up. I have found making panicky sounds usually bring mom straight to me and up into her arms. Of course, she sometimes gives me this look of skeptism but then I roll out the tears and she quickly comes to the rescue. Maybe German mothers are more stoic?

Maddie