Standing

On Sunday afternoon, while hanging around the coffee table as she is prone to do, the baby turned to me and let go of the table.

For that brief second or two, she was standing unassisted.

Of course, then she fell like a plank of wood, narrowly missing banging her head on the tv unit.

But she stood!

Until that point, if you tried to get to her to stand one handed, she would just freeze or slooooooowly lower herself down to the ground (we've been quite lucky in that she taught herself how to get down almost straight away, so haven't experienced any stretch of time where a baby learns how to stand and then just cries and cries and cries until you help it down).