John on Tuesday

John trying his best to squeeze beneath the baby gate to get closer to the kitties eating their food:
Our boy who never climbs anything climbed something! John actually climbed all the way to the top step, but by then I was standing behind him to catch him when he would inevitably lose his balance (which he did when he began dancing to some music he heard).
Our boy who never eats anything ate something! Today I baked some vegan chocolate chip cookies (which were fabulous and did not taste vegan) and John indicated he wanted some. I gave him a shard thinking he'd never eat it as he doesn't even like sweet things, but he gnawed on it for ten minutes!
The piece of furniture which used to safely house my cookbooks lived in the kitchen area and had doors which I could lock. But that piece of furniture broke, so the cookbooks have been in another room, out of easy reach, and it has been bothering me. Now, we have this bookshelf-like piece of furniture sitting in the kitchen area because we got a new armoire to house our television. It's all very complicated, but suffice to say that I got the idea to put my cookbooks in this piece of furniture. You ask, what kind of fool are you, woman? Of course, John noticed them right away, saying "wow!" and pointing (see video below). It has now been two days of my continually putting the cookbooks back and trying to distract John. Obviously, this won't work, but I'm still thinking of a solution.