Milestone!

For a month or so, Jonathan has been hovering on the verge of all of these major milestones:

• He loves to stand holding on to people and things, but isn't quite ready to cruise yet.
• He can pull almost up to standing but needs a teeny extra boost to make it.
• He throws himself from sitting onto his hands and knees and reaches soooo far for toys, sometimes flopping on his tummy, but hasn't figured out how to crawl yet.
• He can go from tummy back to sitting with just the littlest help from mom or dad, but not on his own.

I feel like any minute now he is just going to explode all at once into toddlerhood, leaving us sputtering in his wake, wondering what happened to our baby boy.

And tonight, the first little "pop" went off when I was getting ready to put him in bed. I had put him sitting in his crib while I went to open the window to let in some humid air (I am thinking the croup may be making an encore appearance). Once I had opened it, I turned around to see him...standing up!!!

With a big smile on his face, as if to say "watch out world, here I come!"