Walkabout

It's begun! Your walking has improved so much that we now can take you outside and walk short distances holding hands. This is also, of course, the beginning of you wanting to walk all the time, and refusing the stroller. But for now, let's focus on the happy side of this development.

Your mom hates your hands being on the sidewalk, but I kind of loved how you were drawn to this block. It's a stone, not concrete, kind of like the property markers you'll sometimes see at the corners of buildings in Manhattan. I don't know if it designates the property junction on the corner of our next-door dry cleaners, or if it used to be a post of some kind. But odds are it's one of the oldest bits of our immediate neighborhood, possibly even reaching back into the 19th century.

Just look at these sassy Astoria ladies!