Well, she finally did it.

She’s been practicing for a few weeks now–like she has this great need to be standing all the time.  You sit her in your lap and she frets.  You lay her back and she screams.  You let her stand on your lap and she smiles and coos.  

My mom says that’s a sign of an early walker.  All I know is she doesn’t like to cuddle anymore.

Yesterday I was helping her to stand in the playroom and I thought, ‘Maybe I’ll see if she can stand by the ottoman.’ And boy, did she ever!  For over a minute the first time.  She stood so long that I was able to get about two dozen pictures of her standing unassisted.  She was cooing and smiling and so happy with herself.

 As you can see, she was pretty pleased with herself afterwards.