Jumpy

While John is at the level of an 18month old when it comes to speech and understanding, his motor skills are much further along. I found him stacking blocks at least 7 high today. And, he can run and jump with the best of them. I thought I'd post this picture of him jumping off of our dining room table.

When we let him, he does a little circuit where he climbs onto the table, jumps off, and climbs right back up again. Yoshie said he was trying to swing from the light fixture the other day.
He also likes to climb up on the island in our kitchen. We have been able to stop him so far, but he really wants to jump down to the tile floor.
Another favorite activity is climbing to the very top step of the ladder and just falling backwards trusting that I'll catch him.
It's kind of ironic that he doesn't like our big inflatable "jumper". I guess it's the risk he likes.

His seizures are about the same this week, but we think he is beginning to understand a little more. We make him do some command before we give him almost anything. These commands consist of things like "touch your nose" or "wave". He used to just go through everything he knew until he got to the right action. Within the last couple of days, he's actually been listening to what we were asking and can get it right if he's in the right mood.