Descending the stairs & Turning on the Xbox

Lately Joshua has learned how to come down stairs the safe way- sliding on his tummy. When he first caught on about a week ago, he did this over and over and over again, proud of his new skill. Caleb can do it if we closely monitor and coerce him, but as with most other things, he still prefers to do exactly what he sees the grown-ups doing, which would be walking down stairs on his feet. 

This past week Joshua and Caleb have teamed up to acheive a rather undesirable new skill- turning on the TV and Xbox to watch a Baby Einstein DVD! Joshua will push the eject button on the Xbox, push it back in (with the DVD already loaded) while Caleb turns on the TV. Then they will clap and marvel at their accomplishment as the Disney logo and intro music exudes from the TV. We usually let them watch only one half-hour movie per day, so if they start to get carried away we'll flip the swtich on the power strip so that they can't turn anything on. Hopefully it'll be a while before they figure that out! Joe remarked that this is probably only the beginning of the many great accomplishments they'll acheive working together as a team.