baby steps
Lijah will be one on Friday, and if you ask me he's really acting like it! After a couple weeks of standing on his own only by mistake—and falling as soon as he noticed he was doing it—now he's just letting go of whatever support and standing for as long as he wants, like it's no thing. Of course, he can't walk at all, so once he's standing he doesn't really have a next step, except to eventually sit down, but at least it's handy when, say, Zion pulls the chair he's leaning on away from him.
His language is also moving right along. He asks for food when he's hungry, and he's said (a baby version of) "brothers" a bunch of times. Of course he says "mama" plenty too. That's been going on for a while, but this evening he did something new: a little over an hour after Leah put him to bed he woke up (that's not new) but instead of crying he called out "mama? mama? mama!" with questioning inflection and everything! I was so confused: I didn't know if it was him or Zion! The next time he woke up he cried, as usual.
Do any of the developmental steps include better sleeping?