There are several new photos on Flickr starting here.

Last Christmas, Mark and I got this little fabric play yard thing for Elias which he never really cared for. Several months after that, we got a big bag of balls to fill it, but we only got the balls out once. Mark decided he wanted to get the whole shebang out again and now my living room looks like a Chuck E. Cheese blew up inside of it.

Elias got a kick out of playing with the balls, but little holds his interest nowadays except exploring the areas and things we tell him are off limits.

Last week, Elias started standing unsupported for several seconds at a time. Throughout the week, he mastered this skill and can usually stand unsupported until he feels the need to move somewhere. He’s getting more daring at trying to take a step, but it usually ends with him on his hands and knees and crawling away. Yesterday he took one full step before falling on his hands and knees.

This weekend, he fully mastered standing up on his own (without needing to pull up on a wall or object.) A couple times yesterday, he also crawled off a few times with his arms and legs extended instead of the usual crawling position. I can’t help but think walking is right around the corner.

He’s babbling in baby sentences now. He uses a few baby words pretty regularly (”slur”, “huh”, “nana”) but I cannot at all tell what he means. On Saturday, he said, “Teh” several times when trying to get Teyla’s attention. (He also discovered the joy of feeding her Cheerios.) The only word he consistently uses correctly that I can figure out is, “uh-oh”. There have been several times when we’ve had to do a double-take when he says something because it sounds like he’s saying something specific. Yesterday he was in his pack and play and I was in bed and Mark said it sounded like he distinctly said, “Get. Up.” twice. Since he rarely repeats these words or sentences, I don’t really feel it’s right to count them.

Here are a couple more pictures. We’re hoping to get a smaller camera sometime soon to make it easier to whip out and take photos. Elias and I will be in Maryland next week. I’m really apprehensive about that and don’t feel good at all for separating him from Mark for so long, so we’ll see how that goes.

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