As Matt said it perfectly today, "we have a 1 year old, that can climb onto the couch already." I guess I should have been prepared by all the climbing he has been doing but I figured it would be a while before he could get onto the couch by himself without the aid of someone or something. He had in the past managed to get up there by using toys or other objects as stepping stools but now he can do it all on his own.
He has an obsession with getting the remote for the tv. He even knows to aim it at the tv when pressing buttons. He got a hold of it one day at Kathy's and pushed so many buttons it took her forever to get her tv working correctly again. So when I heard the tv changing channels the other day I knew who was responsible. The problem was that I thought I had put the remote out of reach, on the arm of the couch and low and behold I find that munchkin sitting on the couch like a big boy, holding the remote at the tv and pushing buttons as fast as his little fingers could. When he saw me coming toward him, he screamed and scrambled off the couch to run away.
Thankfully Matt was smart enough to start teaching him at a very young age how to get off the couch "feet first" without hurting himself. He still has his moments when he wants to dive over the back of the couch, over the arm or jump straight off, but thankfully most of the time he goes off smoothly, feet first. He did fall off for the first time yesterday. His response, laughter. This child may be the death of me.
Here is a video I caught of him climbing up and sitting down on the couch:
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