little monkey

From sitting to crawling to pulling up to cruising to walking to … climbing!

Some of our furniture is too high for Benjamin to climb onto, like our sofa, for example. But he has figured out how to ascend in stages. If he moves a box over to the sofa, he can climb onto the box first, then proceed higher.

This evening, he climbed, unassisted, onto the top of the picnic table on our deck. The photograph to the upper right is not of our table, nor our deck, nor our trees in the background. But they're all close enough for you to picture the little guy, not quite 14 months old yet, pulling himself up onto the bench seat first, then up onto the surface of the table itself. For me to provide photographic evidence, I'd have to have been doing something other than hovering nervously during his feat.

This one has me proud and scared.

- papa