Today I went into the kitchen to get Mile some water, and when I came back into the living room, he was drawing on the television with a crayon.

Later, I went to the kitchen, came back, and he was eating a different crayon.

Then he bit me on the leg.

That’s just not cool.

Yesterday was a gold star day for us boys. It’s Air Force Week here in New York and I read on Twitter that the Thunderbirds were going to do a flyover of the Intrepid Air and Space Museum at 10:30 am. I looked at the clock: 8:30. Then I thought “We’re going”. Breakfast, clothes and out the door. We made it with time to spare.

The Intrepid Museum is a decommissioned aircraft carrier permanently anchored on the West Side of Manhattan, and the flight deck is lined with at least 30 different fighter jets and helicopters. Miles just learned the word “airplane” a couple of weeks ago, and when we got to the flight deck, he completely overloaded.

And I taped it:

Airplane! from Timothy Kolk on Vimeo.

21 months

T-Minus 3 months

….LaDonna, with her image, titled “Miles wasn’t dry for much longer”

Miles is great. Walking and running and hopping and jumping. Taking yoga class and he does warrior pose and tree pose and a wicked down dog. Talking a mile a minute, learning new words every day. Greeting people he meets on the street with his “hell-oooooo” - he sounds like a Frenchman answering the phone when he says that.

He’s flirting like crazy, batting his big cow eyes at women at the park, on the subway, checkout counter girls. He’s shameless and persistent. He’s a righty and likes basketball. He tags along with Chris whenever he can, and won’t leave the big kids alone. He picks up our IPhones, slides his finger across the bottom of the screen and finds his applications.

He answers every question with a no, whether he means no or yes. He eats like a champ, and leaves a trail of Cheerios where ever he goes.

And yesterday he fell down the stairs right in front of me, two complete somersaults. He’s fine, nothing more than a fat lip which is already gone this morning.

Because there isn’t any sound on this clip, for some reason.

It kind of makes it funnier:

Miles and Bix with the duck from Timothy Kolk on Vimeo.

Flashlight from Timothy Kolk on Vimeo.