Belly Slide method

Mickey can now go up stairs quite well. Coming down is a little more tricky. So far he can only do two down stairs in a row (from the landing to the living room). Larger groups than that make him scared and he just hems and haws at the top until someone picks him up and carries him down.

On the plus side, I don't have to worry about him bolting out our front door. He would just get to the shared hallway before seeing two and a half flights of down stairs.

He has two methods for going down stairs. The 'handstand' (I will try to get a photo of this soon) and the belly slide.

You can see from the picture that the step process has been broken into two pieces. Front feet and back feet. Mickey just takes his sweet time with his feet on two different levels. His back legs spread out as if he's laying down. Once he realizes that he can't go backwards and pull himself back up a stair he kinda flops down.

Action shot!

It is this flopping, uncontrolled landing at the bottom of the stairs that has me worried about the concrete outdoor ones. So I will wait until he proves he can do the carpeted stair set before I stop carrying him down our outdoor ones.