Stairmaster

No, I'm not talking about the piece of exercise equipment. I'm talking about Adelaide. She has been able to climb up the stairs for a long time now. Just in the past week we've been trying to teach her how to go down the stairs safely. Until yesterday she just didn't seem ready, but I think she's finally getting the hang of it. I'm so proud of her. There are so many things to think through to climb down the stairs backwards. Here's some clips of her in the learning process:

Up the stairs. No problem. The funny thing is that the video somehow uploaded wrong, so it looks like she hits a time warp somewhere in there.


Her first attempts at going backwards:


A wonderful job at the park with lots of coaching. She actually thought about the entire process and did it on her own. Rocky is not just being super paranoid by the way, we were up pretty high off the ground:


And all the hard work is paying off. Here she is this morning going down the stairs. {Disclaimer: Rocky dressed Adelaide today. Hence the disarrayed hair and the poor matching. He did say she looked white trashy, like one of those girls that always has words across their butts. So he made Adelaide her own pair of white trash pants to top it off. }