Big Step

Tuesday evening while we were all relaxing before going to bed Olivia was rolling around in the living room on her blanket playing and sat herself up for the first time completely by herself!
I know this does not seem like a big deal for a 13 month old baby but for her it is a really big step. Two months ago she had a hard time sitting upright without tipping over. She has grown in strength and coordination in leaps and bounds. Dawn, the Physical Therapist we have coming over once a week to work with her says she is really getting strong each week.
From her sitting position she then tries to crawl up on furniture or whoever is sitting near her. We still need to work on that but it gets better everyday. I think very soon she will learn this and be able to walk around without assistance. She can already walk between people from one end of a room to another. This also is a little shakey sometimes but will just take practice. She still only says ma-ma, da-da and hi but she knows the meaning of many words, especially "bath" and is starting to make sounds to go with animal names.
No new pictures for this posting but this week I'll be picking up Olivia's first portraits and you can bet I will have them out on the blog. Stay tuned......