Climber

Several months ago we bought a kid-sized table and chair set at Ikea on a whim. We kept it in the box until we thought he was big enough to get some use out of it. Leave it to Ben to make it his jungle gym. He not only crawls up on the chair, he uses it to crawl onto the table. You'd think we set him on the table for the pic below, but he got up there and sat down himself.

It's nerve wracking when he decides to stand up on the table or chair, or worse when he tries to rock the chair back and forth. Notice too how he is already thinking about how to use the chair to climb the outside of the stairs.