No one will ever believe me,

but I know what I saw.

At six months, two days old, Arthur stood up on his own*. Just now I was sitting on the sofa, beside the ottoman, wearing a long skirt that trailed to the ground. Arthur crawled up to me, grabbed my skirt, and climbed up it hand over hand until he was standing. Then he carefully transferred his hands from my skirt to the ottoman and stood there holding the ottoman, quite steady. He then pushed both hands off the ottoman and just stood, perfectly straight, not holding anything, for a few seconds before he fell over, hit his head, and starting bawling.

Of course, I couldn't move to get the camera because he was holding my skirt, and no one was home to see it except Beatrice, but he stood up! Hopefully next time I'll get it on film.


*This is technically the second time he's stood up unassisted like this, he did it first on Sunday, but that time he fell almost instantly.