I'm headed home to give a speech at my old high school's graduation. Which is a weird feeling-- I don't feel like I'm really old or successful enough to be on the lecture circuit. Then again, it is twenty years since I graduated there myself, which means I've been out of high school longer than most if not all of them have been alive, so...
Anyway, to give you something to look at while I'm off speechifying, here's some video of SteelyKid:
In this clip, she shows off two new ridiculously cute behaviors: the "hold my toy" game where she hands something to you, then takes it back; and tool use, putting one toy inside another toy in order to make something that rattles entertainingly.
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