Abby's Milestones

Our precious little Abby has a mind of her own and has decided that she's going to achieve her milestones on her own timeline. We had to get some help encouraging her to put any weight on her legs at 10 months , give her a little motivation to crawl (aka Fruit Puffs) at 11 months and now at 11-1/2 months she has pulled herself into a standing position! The OT came out last week on Thursday and gave us our new "homework" and I really thought we'd be working on this one a while b/c she just wasn't getting how to pull into a stand. But, my dad worked with her a lot this weekend when he was here and yesterday she started to push up on things into a stand position. Yeah! That's the first step. I was so proud of her. Then today, she pulled into a stand on one of her toys! YEAH ABBY!!!!!!! I really thought it would take longer, but she got it in just a few days. Now we are still working on walking (with help). Right now, if you put her behind a walker and push it forward, she just holds on to it and stretches forward, almost falling on her nose. She just plants her little feet firmly on the ground and doesn't budge. Oh well, our next appointment with our OT is the last week in March so we have a little time to get that one going. Now, she looks a little sad in this picture, almost like I made her stand there just for the picture, but she really did it on her own and was having fun. She's trying to turn on/off the TV. That big button on the front of the TV just calls Jake & Abby's name all the time!!!