Standing Alone

Okay it's been a long while since I've made any blog updates, so get ready to be bombarded the next few days!!  I need to catch up!  First - when Callie started standing alone - right before she took her first steps!

At 11.5 months, she would pull up on something, let go and stand by herself for 1-2 minutes...quite awhile.  You would see her right foot twitching, like she was trying so hard to pick it up, but she just couldn't get up the courage.  She would always smile so big and squeal when she was standing by herself for such a long period - like she was so proud of herself!

Here are some pictures of her standing on her own for a long time:

This was actually about two minutes

 before she took her first steps!

And here is a short clip of a video that shows her squealing and feeling "so big" because she's standing by herself: