With Maxwell William Fisher, everything was "The first time we've ever seen our kid do this or that or the other..."
With Liam Robert Fisher everything is "This is the last time we'll ever see our child do this or that or the other..."
Right now? It's the last time we'll ever get to hold his hands and help him stumble walk across the carpet. Yup. Liam sort of fell into standing, if you will, when he found he needed two hands to hold something and had to stand to do it.
A friend posits that some paleo-historians believe tools came before walking, and in fact that same need to use 2 hands at once is why we became homo erectus in the first place.
Fascinating, as my wife would say.
Anyway, he started solidly standing without supports exactly a week ago and we expect he'll be walking in another week or two. And this morning I finally got a picture of him standing.
I'll bet you'd like to see it, huh?
Posted by BilFish at August 26, 2005 06:52 AM