Eli's newest trick is standing up on his own which means leaving the comfort of balancing on furniture and using pure leg strength to stand up. Now that he has it figured out, he constantly is testing his strength and balance but is not yet confident enough to take any steps. It's been fun to watch how he gets excited with his new skill and when he first figured it out, he'd wait for us to clap and scream with excitement and then he'd also get giddy. Now we catch him doing it even when we're not looking and he practices bending to pick up toys while standing so he can play with them standing up. Somehow this provides endless fun for him. Alan has been trying to show him how easy it is to take a few steps but for now I think Eli finds these lessons more amusing than instructional.
He's almost got it and his"daddy" is a stitch.
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