Cruising, Standing Alone, First Step!

Caleb has been a bit of an overachiever this week. He's been crawling quite well for a few months now, and pulling up on furniture for a month or so, as well. A few weeks ago, Caleb moved up to the next best thing - cruising. Cruising, of course, is walking while holding onto furniture to steady yourself. He got pretty good at the cruising, so he advanced again - this time to standing alone! He first stood all by himself on Tuesday afternoon. He was leaning on the couch, when he suddenly pushed off a little and stood there with his hands in the air. "Look, Mom! No hands!" I thought it was a fluke, but he seemed to get a kick out of standing all by himself and has done it every chance he's had since Tuesday. He also took his very first, teeny, tiny, hesitant, little baby step to Mommy on Tuesday evening. He went from Daddy's arms to Mommy's all by himself. He is very unsteady still, but we are sure that he will be running around getting into full blown trouble in no time.

In the not-so-fun Caleb news, he's been teething like a madman, or rather a "madbaby". He cut his fifth tooth this week, and judging by the chewing, drooling, crabbiness, and almost constant low fever, he's got more in the works. He and I will both be so happy when he is finally done teething!

I posted a bunch of new pictures from today of Caleb and Libby playing, wrecking the house, and making general nuisances of themselves.