The Year You Were Never Bored

I'd like to suggest, dear reader, that there was a period in your life, of at least six months and maybe even a year when you were never bored.  You may have been frustrated because you couldn't get the people around you to understand that you were hungry, or tired, or not tired, or that you were carrying a very unpleasant load in your britches, but you were not bored.  Every thing around you was incredibly interesting: hair, a button on your clothes, the invisible force field between the warm inside of the house and the cold outside that you could touch but could not see, the thing the big people gave you to play in your food with, the thing they put the food into, the grass and all the other stuff to be found on the floor and ground.  It was your year of being a scientist.  Your first birthday was in there sometime.  It was all so very interesting.  And every once in a while you found something unforgettable - like ice cream. Whatever bad thing might have happened from time to time, you were never bored.