"Stand Up"

When I move you move...

As I've mentioned, Ayden's mobility has progressed a lot over the last few weeks. In addition to figuring out how to crawl up the stairs, he started using his push toys and learned to pull himself to standing.

In regards to the latter, the problem wasn't pulling himself up, it was not being able to get down once there. Because he is older than most children are at this stage, he's taller, and therefore has, in relative terms, a significantly farther distance to "fall" in order to plop back down to the sitting position. He just didn't want to do it. Thus, we got to experience the joy of him whining when he no longer wanted to stand and was "stuck." This was even more fun when he would do this in his crib after we'd put him down for the night.

With the help of a soft landing place provided by our chaise's seat cushion, I was able to convince him that sitting down wasn't that big of a deal. This lasted until he sat down awkwardly on his foot and hurt - which is to say, scared - himself. Once that happened, it was back to getting stuck and whining. With some more chaise work, he's sitting himself down again, but only from certain objects (his crib isn't one of them, unfortunately).

What follows is a video and a bunch of pictures evidencing his newfound abilities. (In the interest of page loading time, I've put some of the pictures after the break.)