No Fear

Gavin has become quite the dare devil as of late, or maybe he just hasn't quite grasped the full concept of how gravity works (although he sure likes to test it out with his food at dinner time).  The other morning I was watching Gavin play with a kitchen chair as he tried endlessly to figure out how to pull himself up on top of it.  I could tell he was getting no where and went back to our room to do some cleaning while he kept himself entertained in the kitchen.  Next thing I know I hear this, "THUD! THUD! THUD!" coming from the kitchen.  I came back out to find Gavin standing up on the chair, rocking it violently back and forth.  He's shouting with joy, clearly not aware of the precarious situation, and mad as heck when I take him off the chair.  Now he's a pro at climbing up onto the chairs and I don't think there's a way to baby-proof kitchen chairs.

Gavin's other new achievement is going down slides head first!  I really need to get a video of it one of these days.  It just started the other day when I took Gavin to the park so Jared could figure out where the leak in our ceiling was coming from (story for another day) without Gavin getting in the way.  Usually he'll take his time at the top of the slide and I have to help pull him a bit to get him going, but this time he was climbing up the steps, and before I could get around to the bottom of the slide he had plunged down head first.  I was worried he would face plant at the bottom, but he slid right off onto his hands and knees, and was crawling back around to do it again.  He is now also an expert at climbing up the slides as well, and thinks its just as much fun as going down them.  Gavin also loves the bars at the park. There kinda like monkey bars at about my waist level that kids climb across rather than swing across.  I guess Gavin wanted to try them out as well.  He'll lunge out for the first bar, assuming you'll be right behind to help him along.  He's actually pretty good at pulling himself along with his arms, but has a hard time keeping his legs and body from falling through.

I'm starting to think it's probably a good thing Gavin hasn't started walking yet, or who knows what other stunts he'd be trying out!