backwards

We had some friends over this weekend with thier lovely 14 month old - Alli. Alex and Alli had a super fun time, except for one bite incident. That's a story for another day.


Well, I guess your kid can't be absolutely perfect in every way all the time!!!


One thing I've heard from other parents and books is to teach your kid how to go down stairs backwards. Lance and I tried this about a month ago and we thought Alex was just too little to start to learn this.

Maybe he wasn't ready -but, he's ready now!

Alli came upon our one step down into the living room and was taught very well by her parents (Hi Becky and Eric!) to go down backwards. It seemed like she was a little confused at first since it was only one step down and there is a wide space to the side of the step. She caught on really fast to our house configuration and was going up and down so well.

So, Lance and I decided to try again with trying to teach Alex about going backwards.

It worked! His little brain is ready to absorb the concept of going backwards! I'm so amazed at the changes in just the last month.

His little brain was working and his little legs and rear end... but, sometimes he doesn't quite get his legs all the way around and backwards ends up a little more sideways than necessary. We are always there to catch him, though!

We are also working on going backwards off our bed so that maybe (just maybe) we don't have to watch him every second when he's taking a nap in our bed.

So much fun!