B-A-N-A-N-A-S

He does this thing sometimes when he's eating a banana. 

(Oh, did I mention how much he loves bananas?  That, too, is brand new.  Today he ate two full bananas in the space of 20 minutes.)

We usually break off about a third of a banana to give to him.  He holds it in his little hand, and looks at it; he considers it.  And during that moment the banana becomes somehow fixed.  It cannot move.  He cannot lift it to his mouth.  Not because it’s too heavy; that’s just where the banana is, end of story.  

And so he dips his head, he cranes his neck, sometimes he even bends his knees, in an effort to bring his mouth low enough to bite the banana.  


He always, of course, succeeds in eating the banana. 

But as of yet he has not deduced whether it was the head, the neck, or the knees that got him his prize.  So he continues to gyrate when eating bananas standing up.