Catching up ...

Peter took his first step today (at 7 months and a week). He was standing balanced against my legs, and stretched one foot out as my mouth fell open. He put it down, I grabbed him before he could fall, and he grinned. He's been walking laps around the downstairs for the past few days, always aided by two steady hands from above. He's got the left-right-forward momentum technique down pat, but has absolutely no balance (or fear, for that matter). And he's figured out how to sit up from a lying position in the last week too. The first time he did it was last Friday at lunchtime. It was so slick that I almost missed it. He crawls backwards well up on his knees, then sticks a leg out sideways and takes one more step backwards with the other knee. And he's taken a few crawling "steps" forward in the past week, but never more than two at a time.