We try to get Stone to go on an extended walk at least once a weekend. Recently we went to a Japanese garden where Stone was amazed by the bamboo "forest" and wooden bridges (a long time favorite of his). Pay attention to his bridge crossing skills dramatically increasing in the following clip. Nothing says "perhaps I should attempt to slow down" like a welcoming stone path:
We have found a fantastic bar in Muir Woods called the Tourist Club (http://www.touristclubsf.org/). It's a German style boarding house with a nice deck and at least two German beers on tap located right above the Muir Woods valley. It's become a standard outing whenever we have guests. In order to get to it you must take an awesome 20 min hike through the redwoods. Highly recommended. Stone tends to walk in the beginning and get moved to the backpack when the dropoffs get too step. I attempted to shoot video of the hike but my camera doesn't sample from the sensor fast enough so I end up with Jello vision. You do get an idea of how awesome the hike is though:
Speaking of visitors Heather just stopped by last week for the SF Pride festival. Google was in the parade so we joined 400 of my fellow coworkers and marched down Mission Street. Everyone was trying to get Stone to wave at them. He would exploded in laughter when they all waved back. It was a great time. We did find out that his nails were a bit long after he drew a bit of blood while riding on my shoulders. He wouldn't sit still for me to but his nails but Heather was able to give him his first "pedicure". Stone was amazed with the emory board thingy:
Stone's favorate TV show (after Sesame Street of course) is "America's Got Talent". This is mainly because they constantly show young kids doing dance routines. Whenever these segments are on Stone dances around the living room. He started off doing ballerenia style twirls with his arms out but has recently started to squat down and walk in time with the music. I happened to be absentmindedly tapping on a soda bottle and he started doing this dance to it. I tried to make a steady (abet boring) rythem, grabbed out the phone and got this shot of his current dancing style:
Stone has a new favorite restaurant food: Salsa! He likes spicy salsa as long as it has other flavors. His interactions with salsa tend to follow the same pattern. First he is minding is own business eating chips. At some point he sees that mom and dad are dipping their chips before they eat them. In order to be cool and grown up he does the same. About 4 secs after the salsa hits his tongue his eyes get huge and his lips start to pucker. He then almost immediately redips the chip and just starts eating the salsa straight. Here is a clip taking after a good 5 mins of salsa binging where he has reduced his chip to about one square centimeter but is still using it to get more salsa in his mouth:
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