After a wild day spent looking for a backpack/child carrier, car seat and stroller, we came home with a tired and hungry girl. We fed her. Thinking that perhaps she would like to wiggle a bit, I put her down on the floor in the living room. Bam! She's off! She crawls here; she crawls there. I am on the floor doing my back stretches, and I see her at the two step stairs. I put a dog bed at the bottom so she has something soft to land on if she goes down them. Up she goes! I watch her. She chews on stuff for a bit on the landing, then crawls over the edge of the first step to look over and giggle at me. Oops, she is back in the dining room. No, she's back on the edge again! I watch as she puts her hands down on the first step and glides down. Nicely done, sort of a controlled fall. She does the same thing on the next step, only this is onto the dog bed. I can see she is having the time of her life. She crawls around with me for a bit, then up she goes again! The amazing thing for me is watching how much better she gets at doing this each time she does it. The first time she descended the stairs, it was with a flip and a slide, not pretty at all. She was fine, but I made sure to put the dog bed at the bottom after that and put a gate up if I am not right there. These stairs are a great way for her to learn how to go up and down. They give her a relatively safe way to get some practice.