chiku innovation series 1

Chiku is a man about home these days. The videos that D sends me are about the very 'mobile' Chiku, Gladdens the heart to see the inch by inch, day by day  progress he is making in his locomotion.

He has made a new toy of the foldable clothes hanger. It is light and he can grip it and hoist himself up.It has lots of clothes hanging at arms length. So the minute D has put the  clothes out to dry, Chiku's playtime begins. He removes each and every cloth and makes a colourful tapestry on the floor.Then he moves ahead to other stuff.

Recently he is not satisfied with just that mundane stuff. Once he has got his hand on the rails, he pushes it around and makes a nice merry go round with it. He nicely pushes it against the wall and if he feels it is not fitting just right there, he pulls it back and reverses it and pushes it against the wall once more. It is a treat to watch, one can actually feel he is parking a car and is fussy about it, so moves back and forth and parks it just right.

I was telling D that with such toys, which he can pull, push, do things with, why would he like traditional toys, which are so staid and predictable. She said that's fine, now I am spared the  hassle of getting him a walker. He uses the clothes hanger as a walker.

Today morning during our skype session, he is pushing a single sofa around as though he is tugging at a chariot!

From a light weight clothes hanger as walker to a heavy duty single sofa as a walker, the learning curve has been just two days!