Ohhhhh, boy! He's up!

So, I've been noticing a pattern with Garrett and his milestones. My friend, Kim, has a son who's almost exactly a month older than G and posts about his milestones on Facebook and her blog, just like I do. I started noticing a couple of months ago that about 1-2 weeks after Kim posted about Finn reaching a milestone, Garrett followed suit. Sitting, crawling, etc. So, when she posted at the beginning of the month that Finn was pulling himself to stand, I started to watch Garrett even more closely...to be honest, I wasn't anywhere near ready for him to be getting that much closer to walking yet! Well, it took almost a month this time, but.....



.....yep, my little monster figured out pulling himself up to standing last night.

See the diaper box he's using for balance here? The first thing I saw when he started to figure it out was straight legs, feet on the floor, belly laying across the diaper box, & hands reaching for all the goodies (cords, etc) on the other side of the box. Then he pushed himself up straight to standing! I was so shocked that it took a minute for me to realize what he was doing & get Todd's attention, LOL!

The next thing he did? Turned to the right just far enough to get his right hand on the coffee table, then joined it with his left hand...and immediately lifted the right hand off the coffee table to grab for everything on top of it! No pausing to make sure his balance was ok, no wobbling, no fear of falling there!

Things just got more interesting around our house!