How to Get Rid of Your Excess Belongings

Do you have way too much stuff?  I know I have a variety of objects that I never use or don't like.  Luckily, I have discovered a great way to get rid of all of my excess belongings:  have a baby!!  The only bad thing is that you don't get to choose which things your baby gets rid of.  He works his destruction at random.  The other day, it took him approximately .05 seconds (during which time I was running frantically to stop him because I could see the ruination coming) to turn my largest glass bowl into this:

(The two surviving bowls that you see there were nested inside the shattered bowl.  There were no recognizable pieces left of the broken one.)  The wreckage was so widespread that it took me half an hour (during which time Asher was happily munching Cheerios in his high chair) to get it all cleaned up, but miraculously, Asher came out unscathed.  In all fairness, I have to say that in his first ten months of life, Asher has broken fewer of my belongings than my freshman-year roommates did in the eight months that I lived with them... So maybe if you're really serious about getting rid of your stuff you should just live in a dorm with a bunch of freshmen. :)

In other news, Asher has decided that clapping is one of the best pastimes in the universe.  If he claps, and then you clap back at him, he giggles with delight and then claps again, louder than before.  In this video, he starts clapping when I ask him to verbally only.  I was too busy holding the camera to show him what I wanted... but who knows.  It could have been a fluke... or my baby could be a super-genius. :)

And, finally, for your viewing pleasure, I have finally captured our little biped on film.  Asher is a little cautious and has entered the pedestrian world very gradually, but he is now a full-blown walker.