Brothers

This is JB's attempt to keep Benaiah, who is all over the place now, in his lap.

Benaiah has made it his goal in life to go head first down the carpeted stairs leading to the basement. We have a gate up now every time he is crawling around. I recently found him 2-3 steps up the wooden stairs going to the second floor. The problem...the only way he knows to get down at this point is by falling. I think I will have to gate off the hallway area with the wooden stairs until he has more practice going up (and down, without falling) on the carpeted stairs...although still shocking and painful, a much softer landing than wood.

We didn't do the gate thing with JB and Gloria because they discovered the falling down the stairs thing accidentally on their own. After that, they stayed away from the stairs. However, in Virginia we did not have wooden stairs. Thankfully, the carpeted stairs they tumbled down in VA were not full staircases, but turned around corners so they were broken up, like our current house. Full, wooden staircases are the scariest, especially when their at the top with an adventurous look on their face.
Here is JB in his "stair phase", but here he was already a year old and an "expert" at stair climbing and descending.