Proud Stella!

Stella continues to make slow but steady progress to becoming a full time walker. She does great with walking so long as one of us is holding her hand. But she's yet to start walking solo. As we've written about in the past, lately she is making spontaneous attempts to stand up on her own. It's really fun because she gets so excited when she does try. Now she'll even respond when we say "Stella, stand up!". She'll stick her butt in the air and slowly try and lift her upper half. Usually she fails, but today we had a breakthrough of sorts as you can see in the picture below. What is so odd is that she managed to stand up on her own while on her chair! You can tell from the look on her face that she thinks this is just about the most awesome thing that has ever happened in her short life! (click on the photo for a larger version!)