The Accomplishment

For a while now Catherine has been able to climb up the first step onto the landing of our stairs, but she never tried the rest of the steps, nor did she try to get off the landing. Three days ago, I showed her how to come down the step "safely" by going down on her tummy feet-first. She was angry at me for moving her body, but I saw the light go off, and for fifteen minutes we watched her climb up the step and down. We laughed so hard, and of course, when we tried getting the camera she stopped. She was so proud of herself for being able to do this. Yesterday Bill was playing with her on the stairs and I mentioned how she never tries going up the others, and no sooner did I finish the sentence, she started climbing the stairs. Bill was right behind her and she went up about half of them before getting scared and started whining for him to help her down. She did this a few times, then decided she had enough of that for the day. This morning, however, as soon as we got up, the first thing she did was to crawl over to the steps and start climbing. Bast was at the top of the stairs, and before I knew it, Catherine climbed the entire flight of stairs! So, in the course of three days she went from not even attempting to climb the stairs to getting to the top of the staircase in about one minute. There sure is never a dull moment in a home with children.