That was me on my first birthday.
You might need to
view the large version to see that yes indeed, I was very intent on that fire and probably would have loved to touch it.
Now, Jacob is about 8 months old right now.
I have every reason to believe that if I were to set a lit candle in front of him, he would not focus on it and reach one finger towards it. No, I'm sure he would focus on it and lunge for it with at least two hands. Possibly so suddenly that we'd have trouble keeping him back.
This sure does keep us on our toes.
I also have no doubt that Jacob's first birthday cake will wind up looking like mine did:
Comments
Tue, 26.08.2008 15:46
On a Decwriter IV, the print h ead usually obscures the last couple of characters before th e text. There is a speci [...]
Tue, 26.08.2008 11:29
I should have warned you. It only works on wheat.
Tue, 26.08.2008 07:31
John, the comment I left on th e previous post belongs up her e. Sorry.
Tue, 26.08.2008 07:28
John, I tried your 'TERM=escpt erm telnet localhost > /dev/lp 0' trick and I still have wee ds in my corn field.
Mon, 25.08.2008 11:23
One of the mailing lists I'm o n was looking for one too[0]. Lord only knows what evil they want it for ;-) When I [...]
Mon, 25.08.2008 08:46
On a teletype the typebar move s out of the way immediately a fter each character is printer . You can see what you a [...]
Sun, 24.08.2008 23:12
Ah, the AB1 is probably the be st single best piece of machin ery I've ever owned. It has b een reliably waking me u [...]
Sun, 24.08.2008 20:48
In classic ribbon type printer s the print head would jump up , print, return down, such tha t if typing slowly you c [...]