Climbing

Kate is climbing on EVERYTHING lately. She started at the stairs, and has moved onto the playground. She likes climbing up all of those turning metal stairs, especially if she's chasing after another kid. At home, she's climbing up on stuff. What kind of stuff? This week, she moved a package of paper towels over to her exersaucer. She used it to climb onto her exersaucer! What a strong girl!

Yesterday, she decided that she's ready to move onto other things. Her old rocking chair is her new climbing adventure. She has to try several times to get her bottom up onto the chair. Once on the chair, she either sits on the chair sideways, or tries to climb over the top of the chair. I've had to move the chair against the couch or she'll tip the rocking chair over as she tries to climb over the top.

She doesn't know how to get down off of an item though. That's given us several scares. "Feet first!" hasn't even started to register. She wants to go head first off of the chair, stairs, couch, or anything else she's managed to climb.

But, boy do we get giggles when she sits on our bed. She sits up really tall, looks at us, then throws herself backwards and begins a fit of giggles! She'll do this over and over.

(Anyone think that these two skills don't go so well together? - yesterday, she climbed onto the couch, and tried to throw herself backwards off of the edge of the couch...but she was giggling, so it was cute...whew!)