Building Confidence

Yesterday Tyler made some major improvements in his ability to stand by himself. For some time now, we have caught him standing on his own, without holding on to anything, for a short few seconds. However during our "practice walking holding on to Mommy's hands" session, we tried standing on our own for awhile. He absolutely loved it and once he got balance with both arms, he started smiling and laughing. He knew we were so proud of him and you could tell he was proud of himself. You can see in the photo, that Steve took, the look he would get over and over again as he finally held his balance. It was just priceless!!! There was a few times last night that he stood for close to a minute without holding on to anything. He even pointed at a few things.

Steve couldn't believe how much taller he looked standing there all by himself. We are treating this "standing by myself" like a new game now to make it more fun for him and it shows, he is just loving it. There was even one time last night we were trying to coax him to walk to Mommy and we could tell he was thinking about it, but just couldn't get that confidence to do it alone yet; it won't be long though!