It’s amusing to see the kind of stuff a toddler can reach just because she’s taller than she should be — or at least, taller than the average girl her age (by a lot!). There’s no hiding things above Allie on the counter or the desk or the couch or the shelves, because she can see the item from a few feet away, so she just walks up to the surface and waves her hand around on top and she can reach pretty much anything. I’m glad I didn’t waste time babyproofing the lower parts of the house. If anything, she misses lower items (wires and electricity sockets) because they’re below her line of vision. This extra height also means she completely skipped the ways babies normally learn to descend stairways. My godbrother used to turn and get on his stomach, then slide down the carpeted stairs on his tummy feet-first. Thump-thump-thump-thump-thump. When he got older, he would booty-scoot by sitting on the top step with his feet on the step below, then carefully bringing his butt down to the step his feet are on, lowering his feet to the next step, getting to the edge of that step and sitting, then going down another step. MY kid is tall enough that she can take each step one foot at a time, so she goes up the stairs holding on to the vertical bars of the railing, putting one foot on each step, and she goes down the same way. I’d prefer her to take a step down with one foot then let the second foot join that first foot on the same step before she moves on to the next one, but she doesn’t always do that. And her legs are strong enough to support her body weight and bring herself up/down to the next step single-leggedly. Scary. When she was younger, we would let her crawl up the stairs while we stood close behind her in case of a backwards tumble, and we simply wouldn’t let her go down the stairs on her own. Now that she’s coordinated enough to go down, she totally skipped the baby methods. She actually has visible calf muscle definition. I may have wished a little too hard for her to grow up when she was an infant.