Lots of new skills

All of our efforts to keep Max stair-ignorant were lost when my mom put him on the stairs intentionally for fun. Luckily he has also been busy learning how to get down from the couch and a few stairs. Of course he gets it right more and more of the time, but has his occasional spills so we keep a close eye on him. Watch carefully for the expression on his face when his foot hits the stair below him!

Here are a few things he can now do on the eve of his 11 month birthday: go up stairs, go down 1 stair, get down from the couch, turn while walking, feel his own tooth (with his fingers or his tongue), stick out his tongue, wave bye-bye, walk a long ways (but isn't "running" yet) pretty fast with short steps, step sideways, open drawers (after watching mommy put away a remote! big mistake to do that right in front of him), take things out of containers, drop balls & go after them, bang pretty much whatever his has in his hands together, get into & out of his radio flyer car, open & close the door to his radio flyer car and lastly will sit down in his radio flyer car when we scold him for standing up in it.