Joshua Knieval

Joshua could accurately be described as a daredevil.  He's always excited to find new things that are fun to do, and sometimes those end up being a little on the dangerous side.  We have a cylindrical ottoman-like thing (I'm not really sure what it is.  It's a microfiber cylinder with a lid in which you can store things.  What is that even called?).  Recently he realized that if you turn it on its side, it rolls.  So he enjoyed pushing it around the room.  It didn't take too long for him to realize that he could roll his body over it.  Then he realized he could get a little bit of a running start and make it go faster, sending him to the ground once it rolled him to the other side.  Now it's in his rotation of fun things to do each day.  We just remind him to stay on the carpet, and otherwise it's actually safer than it looks.  Here he is in action.  He's actually moving quite fast in the first one, even though it appears from the picture that he's just balancing.  I didn't have my good fast-shooting camera, so these are from two different rolls, but they pretty accurately depict what happens.