I didn't realize that this would be a big milestone for me but today I realized that I now have two kids who walk down the stairs by themselves. And that we haven't used our baby gates for their intended purpose in quite some time (they will not be coming down yet because they are extremely useful to keep kids where I want them and not a floor above or below!).
But the key words in the second sentence above are two kids who walk down stairs by themselves. Benj has been walking down the stairs while holding one of our hands for months but when he went by himself he has always slid down backwards or gone down sitting. However, a couple of days ago I went to take his hand to walk down and he declared that he was going to "do it MYSELF." And so he did and has since.
Thankfully (for my nerves at least) he has been going slow and saves the jumps for the last step.
(or maybe two)
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