6.03.2009
A: faster than you think.
Q: how fast can your toddler move? I found out today. I was looking for books on airports in the kid's section of the library today after story time. It has swinging glass doors between it and the rest of the library. Tobo was wandering around with me. Well kind of. He was wandering around near me, grabbing magnets of the bookshelf ends and generally enjoying the chaos of meet the puppets, put your cushions away, etc. I have no luck finding the books, so I turn around to collect Tobo ..but there is no Tobo. I look in the rows on either side, but then catch sight of his stripped orange shirt outside the doors, across the lobby, about to attempt the stairs to the second floor. I of course bolt over there, but then follow him up as he climbs the whole staircase up to non-fiction. He asked to be carried down once he reached the top, which I was totally willing to do. So, yeah, Tobo can go up stairs! Yikes! Tobo has no regard for stay near mommy!
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Sounds like you've got a climber on your hands! Keep allowing him to do those stairs, it's great exercise and coordination for him! (it's the coming down that's tricky - we taught Charlie to turn around and go down backwards, like climbing down a ladder.)
The answer is always faster than you think--triple fast if you are not looking!
Anna would go down stairs backwards too. She came to love stairs so much she wouldn't want to stop going up and down. (And did you hear about the escalators at the airport? MUST. GO. UP.)
Go, Tobo, go!
Yeah, I think I missed the window on the backwards thing. I mistakenly taught him the other way so now we're unlearning. Which means when we are not paying attention we just step off.
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