Bean’s room is scheduled to get torn up in T minus 15 minutes (a window is getting replaced).

So, let me point you over to this very fun photo essay of a toddler’s stroller view through New York City.

On a visit to New York City, Diego Acosta Lopez mounted a camera in the rear of his son’s stroller and set the camera to take a photo every 10 seconds. I never realized how much world is transformed by a stroller canopy and plastic rain shield.

I’ve always wondered why Bean, who babbles nonstop about trees and birds and trucks and more trees and blue skies in the Ergo, is silent when she’s in her stroller. And why she howled for blocks the first time I had to use the rain shield. I can see now that her experience in a stroller is like that of a removed spectator, watching the action from her safe shelter. The rain shield almost renders the world into a late-period Monet.

Check out the slideshow here: A Toddler’s View of New York City