We can't complain, baby hear plane.

Babies.

They can't do much for themselves can they? They can't feed themselves, dress themselves, drive a car, pay the bills or even use the toilet. Sometimes when adults are especially incapable people will say they are "helpless as a baby."

As such it comes as no surprise that there are many day to day things that you and I can do much better than Baby Laura.

But one thing that Laura can do better than any other living adult I know, is detect airplanes.

On Father's Day, myself and my beloved domestic partner Kaitlin went down to Eagan to hang out with the family...and of course with Baby Laura. During the course our visit, I daresay Laura detected at least 17 airplanes. When she heard one, she would raise her eyebrows, declare "Oooh," leave her mouth in the shape of "Oooh," and make "touchdown" with her arms. She would then scan the sky to try and find the plane and finally look to everyone else to make sure that we too were aware of the plane.

This became even more impressive when I realized that she was indicating "airplane" before any of the adults had even realized there was a plane overhead. It's true that when you live in Eagan you get desensitized to the sound, but Kaitlin and I don't and she still caught them before we did. This to me indicates two things:

1. Adults will tune out outside sounds when they are focused on something else and as a result can be caught unaware of what's really going on around them.

2. Laura can probably hear better than we can. Possibly many of her senses and reactions are sharper than ours because they are all brand new.

Isn't that cool? I think so. I'd really like to experience my current existence with the senses of a 1 year old.

Oooh.