Was that a first step ?!?! I think it was !!

Ryland has mastered the stairs!! He can speed crawl up them and then back down. And I do have to say that it is the cutest thing ever!! The nice thing is that we have 3 steps up into our bonus room upstairs which has been a great place for him to practice. Tab really worked with him last week while I was traveling for work. And then my parents keep him last weekend while we went to Savannah for a wedding and they practiced with him out in Douglasville. So far we have really only let him crawl down the 3 stairs in our bonus room because he likes to start going down head first and then flips his body around by stair 2 or 3.

During all of the stair crawling practice last week Tab sat Ryland on the bottom step and put out his hands for Ryland to walk to him. And he took his first step!! When Tab told me I was not 100% convinced that we could call that his first step but when he did it again last night I totally agree!! He bounced his little butt on the step a few times and then stood up and took a step. Now if he can just convince himself that he can take more than 1 step before falling we might have a walker on our hands soon!!

And I do have to say that our favorite thing to do every night before bed is to play chase as a family. We all go upstairs after dinner and have so much fun chasing each other through the hallway, bedrooms and bonus room. Ryland LOVES this and laughs so hard as he speed crawls away from us or into our arms when the other one is chasing him. And Codi and Bailey join in sometimes and Ryland gets a big kick out of that!