Stair-stepping and apple-eating

Eli did something cool for the first time on his birthday a couple of weeks ago -- he walked up the stairs! (With help, of course!)

He's been crawling/scrambling up the stairs for a while now. I was walking around the house with him on the morning of his birthday (with me holding his hands to balance him) when he headed for the stairs. I assumed he wanted to climb up as usual, so I tried to let go of his hands, but he wouldn't let go of my fingers.

Instead, he just lifted one leg up onto the first step, and used my hands to pull himself up... and did it again... and again... and soon enough, we were at the top of the stairs!

Eli is pretty good at climbing the stairs now. He'll use either his right or left leg to step up (instead of always sticking with the same leg), which is cool.

Eli doing something else new when I got home today (his second full day at home with stay-at-home Missy). Eli was holding a whole apple in both hands and eating it! He was doing a great job, just taking tiny nibbles (while Missy and I watched him closely to make sure he didn't accidentally take too large of a bite).

Eli also likes to offer Missy and I food now. While he was eating his apple, he held it out towards Missy, and then smiled and laughed when Missy took a bite. He gave me a few bites of the apple, too! It was really cute!