The Evolution of Standing

Andrew is now fully standing.  He does need to hold onto things to balance, but he no longer requires us to help him stand up.  He does that all on his own.  In fact,  it's hard to keep him sitting down any more.  The evolution from first trying to pull himself up to being able to stand fully on his own was less than a month.

November 11: He's trying to pull himself up.  He's been doing that for a few days, but still hasn't managed to figure it out how to fully stand up.

November 24: He's now able to pull himself up to a standing position, although he's still very unsure of himself.  The end of this video evidences how unsure.  But don't worry, as with all of Andrew's falls, he cried for about 5 seconds, then wanted to play some more.

November 27: In just three days, he has become much more confident on his feet.  He's not shaking around as much, but he still has to work to steady himself.  Unfortunately, it doesn't last, but he's taking the falls better!
And yes, he's wearing the same jammies from the previous video.  I promise you they were washed in between the two days!

December 4: He's now a fully standing machine.  He will stand at his musical table for an hour at a time, going in circles around it and playing with all of the buttons.  Since this video was taken less than a week ago, he's gotten even better at it.  We put velcro on the bottom of the legs, which sticks very well to the playmat, so the the table can't slide out from under him.

He has also started standing in his crib when he decides that that's the right thing to do at the moment.  Emily went in to get him one morning, and found this:

That day, the crib was lowered down so he can't lift himself out or anything like that.

Periodically, Sam goes through the overnight videos.  The scene below has become much more common.

Who knows what this means?  Will he be freely standing on his own in a month?  Will he be walking?  Stay tuned!!