Ours has fallen down the concrete stairs at big sister's school *cough* more than once *cough* and she does it in this kind of slow-motion way. They're so small at that age they don't fall very hard or fast.
The number of times she's fallen off the back of the couch - a much higher drop - because she's copying her big sister doing something idiotic she's been told not to do 1000 times is much higher.
Big sister was once encouraging her to climb up a VERY steep set of METAL stairs to the office of our local builder supply yard. Had to nip that one in the bud. "but she waaaaaaaaaaaaants to climb up there"
When big sister is around we have a perpetually bruised, battered, crying toddler. When big sister is away for holidays we have surprisingly few injuries ...
RumpledElf the older kids are such a PITA when it comes to those sorts of things, am so scared of what Ava is going to teach Zara that said Ava is a bit of a tomboy and i think the stairs may be the least of my worries... once i found her CLIMBING her TALL BOY she managed to open 3 drawers at different intervals and start climbing...
Oh hun accidents happen and I am so glad that she appears to be fine, it is horrible when they take a tumble like that how are your nerves now?
DD has gone down one or two steps but not that many, she is very good at going up and down them, but we watch her all the time, unless she has done a runner for them and we don't see, we have a door between them and the living area that we can shut so she can't get to them.
We have a gate at the top, just so that if she is wandering around in the mornings when we are getting ready for work, or in the evenings we know she is safe. The gates are a bit of a PITA, but I guess a bit of piece of mind.
DD did the same with her tall bay, early morning start I was napping on her floor while I thought she was playing, only to find that she had opened the bottom drawer and then the second drawer and was sitting it it opening the third drawer I freaked out as I was right next to her
Little ones are very good climbers. The big one has her chocolate and other snacks on the top shelf of the pantry and hasn't yet figured out that the little one can just climb up the pantry shelves like a monkey to get it. There's not many safe places in this house you can stash snacks these days.
When the big one was 2 I had an electrician in and she was all set to follow him up his ladder into the ceiling ... ladders are even worse than stairs
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how are your nerves now?
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