Freestanding . . . And a Few More Pictures

Nicholas stood up this evening, completely by himself in the middle of the floor! For about the past week he has been occasionally going up to his feet and hands, trying to get to standing, but never could get out of that triangle shape. But tonight he somehow did it. And then promptly took a couple steps on his own to get to a toy.

I'm wondering if this was the last key to actually walking as a mode of locomotion. He loves walking, but only either holding onto someone/something or as a game. So he walks between people (always falling at the last step, because that is part of the game), but if he wants to get somewhere, he crawls. (But, man is that crawl impressive these days.) He has the physical ability to walk, but mentally isn't a walker yet, I guess is the way to describe it.

I guess we'll see if this new standing up thing changes that or not.

Joe's parents sent some pictures from their camera, so I'll post a couple highlights here.

Speaking of the walking game, we played it with Joe, Patrick, and I as three points to walk between on the floor of a store to kill time on Saturday afternoon:

From 2010 May

From 2010 May

I told you Nicholas had gotten much more comfortable with Uncle Patrick!

From 2010 May

And this is my favorite picture so far of Nicholas and his Grandma Alice.