Tristan used to love playing with toys in the car. Now (within this past month or so) he pretty much rejects anything in his car seat aside from himself. He won’t even eat from a snack trap in his car seat most of the time. But he does seem to enjoy the hell out of being in the car lately. He watches all of the scenery rather wondrously every time I catch him. And for some reason, he’s developed interest in the overhead light in James’s car (so he doesn’t want to sit down until he’s had chance to fiddle with it) and some odd seatbelts in my car (a bit more compliant on that one :)).

That being said, we’re evolving FINALLY on that path from baby to child. Tristan gets a lot of chances to walk now since he’s somewhat aware of directions (read that as he chooses to follow them, I think). We don’t always have him down out of the sling, but little things like walking from the car to the stairs and then up them are becoming routine. He presses the garage door button with glee to watch the door go up or down, now that he understands how to jam his thumb to press an “adult” button. EVEN better is that he has good discipline about it and presses only once! I need to train that with a couple of other devices. 🙂