Here’s a video my dad took. I crawl up to him and climb him, then go over to the coffee table for the TV remote and an old cell phone. It’s an old cell phone, so nobody cares if I hold it by the antenna and swing it around.

And I can stand up! Only for a few seconds, but I’m learning how to move my feet while I’m standing. Soon, I’ll be able to cruise along tables and ottomans and things.

I’ve been eating a lot more kinds of things. I started eating oatmeal cereal with my fruit baby food, and I like Cheerios a lot. My dad made himself a smoothie with banana, pear, and blueberries, and when I asked him for some he gave it to me! Of course, he drank it from a glass and I ate it with a spoon. But it was good and I ate a lot of it.

I’ve got two teeth trying to come in the top to match my two teeth that are coming in the bottom. They hurt. I’ve been trying to put my mouth on knobs for cupboards and coffee tables and things, but my dad keeps making me stop. He can be a meanie sometimes. I wish my mom wasn’t away on the other side of the world. I miss her a whole lot.