STANding to Walking

So, I think I failed to mention that Stanley Bear can now stand without holding on to anything (we now call him Standing Bear.) He's been doing that for several weeks now. One of the first times he did it he was standing in the bath tub and he raised his arms up, looked at me wide-eyed as if to say, "Look Ma! No hands!!!" and then PLUNK, his little butt went down into the tub water and he smiled (because he likes to splash and maybe because he was just standing without holding on to anything!!!) Here is a video of him standing (but crying):

standing crying from erin kawamata on Vimeo.


So, the next step after standing is walking. Here he is pushing the high chair at Auntie Sue's last weekend:

Here is a video of him doing it:


walking from erin kawamata on Vimeo.

While in Maryland last weekend, the last morning we were there, I was packing up the car and Sue and Carter were hanging out with Standing Bear in the back yard. They witnessed his first solo steps on the first day of July in the year of Twenty-thousand-thirteen. We've got a walker on our hands people! Watch out Mike's stuff!