Iyonna

Iyonna
Originally uploaded by Ashiedu Nwadiei.

This is my youngest child, Iyonna. She's almost two now. Recently, what she has started to do is tripping me out. She was walking before she was one (twelve months to my wife), then she started to climb the stairs. For a long time she would go up there by herself whenever anyone wasn't looking. She was pretty fast at it! But she couldn't get down. "I cain't...I cain't," she'd cry. That's what she says when she can't do something.

Now, that's changed. I've noticed that when I hear her going up the stairs and I call for her, she actually goes comes back down. The record so far that I've seen is three steps up. She's already rowdy enough, but now she's gonna be unstoppable. She right on track for terrible two.