Since my son started to walk, our flat is looking strangely tidy
Now that my son is properly walking, some unexpected benefits have emerged. For one thing, he’s easier to entertain. Seen from a vantage point just 8in higher than that he knew before, our small flat is now strangely new to him. Like a friend who’s arrived too early at a housewarming, he expresses dumbfounded glee at every boring little thing. ‘Oh wow,’ he seems to say at each tabletop, shelf and arm rest now within his eyeline. ‘I just love what you’ve done with the place.’
What I hadn’t expected, however, was another quirk of his pedestrianism – a dizzying new desire to help out around the house. He walks around with his hands behind his back, in the manner of a health inspector at a primary school. Sometimes all he wants is to grab a shoe and place it in the small basket we keep near the door for that very purpose. Never mind that he will invariably take another shoe with him on his return, before traipsing back to store that as well – the sentiment is there.
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