Leah Lovely: Tricky Leah!

Today, Cam and Leah were playing together in the family room. I decided to run upstairs and put a load of laundry into the washing machine, and I asked Cam to call for me if Leah left the family room. I was up there for about a minute and could hear them playing, so I kept loading the machine. All of a sudden, they sounded much closer, so I called to Cam and started heading towards the stairs. I said, "Cam, where is Leah?" He called back, "Umm, about half way." Half way what? I was thinking... that is, until I got to the stairs. There, on the landing half way up the staircase, sat Leah and Cam!! I asked Cameron how Leah got up the stairs, and he said, "She climbed up herself. I came up behind her to make sure she didn't fall." Leah just sat there smiling, obviously very proud of herself!

My thoughts:
1) Hmm, apparently Leah can climb stairs. I have seen her go up and down one step, at Nana's house, but never more than one. So Cam was the only witness to Leah's first trip up the staircase.
2) We have been saying that we need to get the gates up... now we REALLY need to get them up.
3) What an amazingly considerate older brother Cameron is. Of course, I wish he had called for me when Leah left the family room, like I asked him to, but the fact that he thought to follow behind Leah and make sure she was okay is super sweet.
4) I am definitely out of the running for Mama of the Year. Leaving an almost one-year-old alone downstairs with a three-year-old is NOT a good idea.

What a tricky little monkey we have though! We love our Leah pea!

And, as a bonus Leah Lovely, here is Leah with her first pigtails!! (which, I agree, look more like antennae on an insect)