On her own two feet

While at her Great Aunt Terry's place on December 27th, Sophie practised standing. Kristi caught this video of one of Sophie's longest independent stands yet.

Status update

Wow, it has been a while since our last post - ages, in baby development time. Here's where we stand right now with Sophie:

• she's crawling everywhere
• she's able to stand up on her own, if she has something to grab onto - in her crib, in her playpen, by the couch, by a chair, etc.
• once standing, she can stay there for a long time, balancing with one hand
• she's making lots of noises - her favourite word in the last few days is "huzzah"
• Holly said she was using her index finger to point at things (like streetlights) today, but I haven't seen it yet (not that I don't believe Hol, I'm just excited to see this in action)
• she's just (in the last day or so) started waving in response to people waving at her - her wave is a little fold-in-half hand flap, very sweet
• she laughs a lot at her parents behaving like silly idiots, which only encourages us - tsk, tsk
• just now, she was in a smacking mood, and was happily laying into our couch and the cusions on it
• she just tried peaches, and quite liked them

I guess that's about it for now. More as it develops. We've got a good video of Sophie waving and smacking, maybe we'll try to get that posted before too long.