Wednesday, August 10, 2005
Skywalker vs. Staircase
Our Little Skywalker likes to climb up the staircase at home. However, both J and I need to keep an eye on him every time he does that. He tends to turn and look behind after a few steps, and that made him vulnerable to falling down due to imbalance (and also the narrow steps we have at our home).Somehow he doesn't climb up the stairs so often at my parents' place where he can walk around in the house freely without restriction. Due to the nature of the furniture arrangements (and furniture) in our own house, we always restrict him access to certain area namely area around my low, squarish with sharp edges and big coffee table, in front of the TV (which sits on a low TV stand) etc. It seems like every where he goes, we will call him back. Maybe that's why he prefer to climb the stairs instead.
Yesterday, I came up with an ingenious way to keep him from climbing up the stairs.First, I show him how to sit on the bottom step of the staircase with both his legs on the floor. Then, I start tapping my feet on the floor while I made "a-capella" rhythmic sounds. It goes something like "Bom... Chii... Bom... Chii..." and slowly evolved to a fast rhythm "Bom Chii Chii.. Bom Chii".
As he listens, he started to emulate the feet tapping act at first. Although he cannot follow my pace and one leg after another, he still enjoy following my act. Few minutes later, he started humming sounds like "Zii.. Zii... Zii". Before you know it, we've been at it for about half an hour before started to get bored and continued his stairs climbing.
He managed to surprise (terrified would be a better description) us yesterday as he attempted to stand on each step of the staircase. His new performance will be a headache to both J and I as now we have to keep both eyes on him anytime he goes near the stairs. As he stand, he even put both his arms in the air as if to show off to his parents not knowing we are scared to death looking at him standing like a drunk man.We really can't wait until the day when he can stand and walk steadily...
Jotted down by Egghead :: at around 8/10/2005 09:38:00 AM :: and invited 0 Blah(s):
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