Climbing Stairs

Much to our chagrin our first and only son is now climbing stairs. In fact he seems quite obsessed with climbing stairs. He has, I believe, only climbed three stairs at once so far. However, seeing as he has no fears at this point in life and no understanding of consequence, he tends to think that he will float back down when he is done climbing. So out of parental concern we have decided to try our darndest to keep him from climbing stairs for the time being.

I would like to mention, also, that today he began to wear his Saskatoon Blades shirt which he received at Christmas from his Uncle Andrew and Aunt Cara.

As you can see in this picture, he climbs anything now. In fact, he can walk the perimeter of his crib, or his playpen. In fact, he can stand up, holding on to the wall of his playpen with one hand, and drink from his cup with the other. He is getting so good at balancing that we fear he will be walking before too long. Which is certainly cool, but also a little difficult seeing as we can hardly keep up with him as it is.

As to his relationship with Misty (our cat), he loves to chase her around the house and she loves to run away from him. Sometimes he'll see her and just start laughing out loud. Misty comes in to Elliot's room every morning to say "hello". She is warming up to him but would rather if he didn't grab her tail and pull hard.