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Bang, bang, drop

May 16th, 2007 by

Nicholas has entered the “caveman stone tools” phase of infant development. If you give him something, regardless of what it is, he first bangs it against whatever is close, and then throws it to see what it sounds like when it lands. After watching him for awhile, I realized this isn’t such a bad way to scope something out. The world becomes one big percussion section. Most things hat make cool noises when you bang or drop them are good. Objects that don’t? Probably lame and not worth your time. For example, an iPod makes really neat noises when banged and rattles nicely when it hits the tile floor. It’s a keeper. Brussel Sprouts? Lame squishy like sound when banged. Boring soft padding noise when dropped. Lame.

I’m not sure why everybody is so impressed that early man developed stone tools. I think all that happened was they saw one of their children banging their rock rattle on the cave floor. Boom. Stone tools.

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2 Responses to “Bang, bang, drop”

  1. on 23 May 2007 at 6:48 pm   Melodie

    Very coordinated – and with the pacifier at the same time!

    It’s good to see that someone else is using the binkie/gift-from-heaven/”mute button” as well.

  2. on 23 May 2007 at 6:51 pm   Scott

    Oh dear god, I don’t know how we would survive without the binky.