New skills

The munchkin is getting better with the physical skills. He's had another skill "growth spurt." In addition to his solo stair climbing activity, he's also done several new things this week. He got out of a large rocking arm chair all by himself (and very smoothly I might add). He got down off of our bed by himself (not so smoothly). For those who don't know, our bed is very high--it comes up to my waist, so this is quite an accomplishment (even if he did loose his balance and fall on his tush). He's been practicing that one for a while. He's been very cute with it...he knows to turn around and throw his legs over, but since it's so high, he gets a death grip on the sheets and slowly lowers himself down. The first couple times he did it (with me sitting right beside him to help him if he needed) he did his little nervous laugh. Then he figured out to lower himself until he was standing on the bed rail. I think the problem now is he's not sure how to get down off of that. He also walked all the way out of the YMCA to the car. He's starting to like exploring more new places on foot. That makes for interesting trips to the store while he pulls everything off the racks. He and I went shopping for some summer clothes for him last week, and he ran around the clothes racks playing hide and seek and laughing like crazy. He had the best time.


Another random picture. He's practicing to be Joseph in the Christmas play when he gets old enough.