Well Charles is officially walking, but it still isn't his preferred means of travels (especially since he's the fastest crawler around, since Adahleigh is so quick and he has to constantly follow her). His first step wasn't just one, but several across the room. We figured he'd been holding out for some time since he has had such great balance standing and moves well along furniture, he just wasn't brave enough to make the giant leap (or maybe he was just scared that big sister would push him over). Now he likes to speed crawl half way across the room, stop and stand up, take half a dozen steps, and then fall down and continue crawling on his way.
His climbing skills are more refined than his walking skills. He now manages to climb on the couch without help or need of anything to stand on. He tried to climb our 4' high table chairs, but didn't get much higher than one foot on the cross bar. His favorite things to climb are the dishwasher and Adahleigh's step stool (at which point he stands up and puts his hands above his head as if he just won a gold medal).
He's also the biggest ham around. He loves to show off for the camera. He also gets into everything, so to be able to keep him out of the kitchen when needed we have to lay a chair across the opening. He figured out pretty quickly how to crawl through the chair legs so we had to put things between to block his path.
He's also a very hands on kid, and learns quickly how things work. He has pretty much mastered the ipod touch, and he loves and knows how a lot of the toys work that Adahleigh hadn't really got the hang of till she was about 18 months.
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