More on Simeon

I’ve had to give up.  I’ve had to acknowledge that, if I try to keep Sim from climbing on everything – which is what he wants to do all the time – I will not have time to do anything but follow him and take him down from things and try to make them safe, only to turn around and find him climbing something else while I was rearranging furniture so that he wouldn’t climb on that…

SO, in an effort to keep him safe even while he’s climbing, we’ve been telling him about turning around to climb off of high things – he does this very well – and that we sit on chairs, and we’ve been letting him stand on stools in the bathroom, kitchen, and living room, so that he can feel like he’s part of it all.  Of course, we have to make sure the stools are properly placed, or his stool-standing to look out the living room window turns into table-standing to look out the living room window.  We’re not going there.  He’s very adept at getting off of all the things that he can get onto now, and he’s only had one very minor fall in the past few days. 

Simeon is also no longer a prisoner of the stroller when it comes to the local playgrounds.  There’s climbing and sliding and swinging and all crawling to be done!  He’s got some water resistant pants and he’s ready to go.

But he’s not going to be crawling around the parks too much longer.  Today, I looked over from a math lesson I was working on with Hannah and saw Sim take 8 or 10 steps across the room.  Dawning pleasure on his face was most amusing to see, and after he took three or four of the steps, he said, “Walk!  Walk!”  He’s taken a couple steps here or there of late, but this was a pretty long walk.  He’ll be running soon, no doubt.