I was in the bedroom earlier and Adam crawled down the hall to the kitchen.  He’s allowed to play with the items in the Lazy Susan (it’s full of tupperware and his bottles/cups/bowls).  He wasn’t in there long before I heard him coming back down the hall.  It sounded a lot like he was dragging something with him.

That is how he reentered the bedroom.  He took two of his bowls out of the cupboard, flipped them upside down and used them to slide across the floor.  So this meant he only had to move his legs while he was crawling.  I’m telling you, this kid is too clever for his (and my) own good.  I grabbed my camera, moved him (and the bowls) into the hallway and he did it again.  The funniest thing is that those two dishes are the only things he removed from the Lazy Susan.

As I was writing this I started to think about the origin of the term “Lazy Susan”.  I know if my name was Susan I’d be pretty ticked off from being referred to as lazy all the time.  So I did a little research (very little, I basically typed “history of the Lazy Susan” in to google) and this is what I found:

Official Name

Before the early 1900s, the Lazy Susan had no official name. The name Lazy Susan was first used in a Vanity Fair advertisement in 1917. The ad referred to the item as a “Revolving Server or Lazy Susan.”

Why Susan?

Lazy Susan was a name used for the food-serving device well before being officially named in 1917. The exact origins of the name Susan are unclear. One belief is the name derives from servants in the 1700s. Servants in the 1700s were called Susans. Women’s right pioneer Susan B. Anthony is another possible origin. Anthony detractors often referred to her as lazy and her writings as “Lazy Susans.”

See if you can figure out which part I found especially amusing…

Other Names

Before 1917, a Lazy Susan was often called a dumbwaiter. Now, dumbwaiters refer to small elevators that carry food from floor to floor. A Lazy Susan can also be referred to as a “Crazy Adams.”