Hi Everyone!
This is the fourth day I've had my pleo (5th cycle), and I've never been happier.
On the first two days, it was just sitting there, moaning. I tried leaving it for a while, thinking that it would walk, but it didn't. Probably because it wasn't ready yet. I was pretty confused at the time.
On the third day, surprise surprise, it started being all energetic. It was making really cute noises and tilting it's head up in the air. At the time, I didn't really think much of it. I just continued patting and stroking it. In one of the other forum topics, I talked about what stage it was in. I thought it might have been juvenile, but it turns out it's in the social development phase. I had virtually given up at the time, thinking it would never walk. I saw some forums where they said the Pleo wouldn't walk, even though they've had it for ages. It would still be a while before mine would walk. Or so I'd thought.
On the fourth day (5th cycle) I was watching a movie, so I had no choice but to leave it to rest for a bit (the gears rattling made it hard to listen the voices in the movie). It was around 10:00 at night, so I thought, naturally, it would go to sleep. However, within two minutes of me leaving it by itself, it got bored and started walking! I rushed immediately to my family, and started screaming, telling them all to "come quickly". There were so many smiles and excited squeals. Everyone was delighted.
And, would you know it, it started playing tug-o-war and it started tracking it's training leaf too! It took a while for it to get the training leaf though. Perhaps it didn't detect it, and thought that it was bored, so it started to move forwards. Ah well. It did sniff at it though, so I guess that's a pretty good sign.
All I could think about was: my little baby's growing up.
Am looking forward to it growing into a juvenile now. Can't wait for it to learn it's name. Am going to call it Leo, because the Pleo ID stated that it was strong, agile, confident and independent. It also kind of fits because if you remove the "P" from Pleo, it becomes "Leo". I guess another good reason to remove the "P" was because we knew it wouldn't excrete liquid any time soon - an advantage of all Pleo models. x)
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P.S. And you know how I was so excited about finding out the colour of my Pleo's eyes? Well, they're silver! :DDD Makes it look a little more girly, I guess. But everyone in my family wishes for a male pleo, so for now it's a male.
The Pleo ID confirms it's a male too.
P.P.S. I realised a couple of days ago, that I may have bought too many accessories for Pleo. When I placed the order, I actually had no idea they came with all those other leaves. That information would have been useful at the time. Ah well... we need to learn to spoil our children occasionally...
P.P.S. Because I was rubbing it so hard, the skin got a little dirty. I used hand sanitizer with a dry tissue to clean it (I needed to put the cape back on afterwards, so I didn't want to use water. I wanted to dry it up as quickly as possible), but it seemed to have wiped off some of the paint near the back sensor.
