My Last Saving Grace...

...has disappeared. One of the things that really helped keep me sane with Jeffrey was that he was completely not interested in stairs or climbing. Erin was a little monkey getting up and down the stairs and climbing onto furniture before she could walk. Not Jeffrey, he just isn't (now wasn't) as interested in it.

That is until last week. Erin showed him how to climb onto the coffee table in the basement. Now he likes to sit there and watch cartoons with Erin. Then he discovered he could do the same thing to get into the recliner in the basement and would sit there and even decided to crash there and take a nap (very cute). Still I could deal with this.

Wednesday afternoon Erin was playing in the basement on the computer and I was working in the kitchen on dinner. Jeffrey was playing in the living room - his usual habit while I make dinner. Tom came home and asked where the kids were. I said,


"Well Erin's downstairs playing Rocket on the computer and Jeffrey's right there in the living room."

"No he's not here"

"What do you mean he's not there? He was just right there"


Then we heard thumping from upstairs. Jeffrey was in his room playing. Happy as could be and so proud that he got up there all by himself. Now he's up the stairs faster than you can blink. Zoom.

The biggest problem now is that I can't put up gates for him because Erin still needs to be able to get up and down the stairs to the potty. So we are working on just getting used to Jeffrey climbing the stairs and having to be aware of where he is at all times.

Sigh, just another wonderful step in the development of our two mobile children household. Wish me luck.