standing!

This may seem like an ordinary picture to you, its just Mikayla standing being funny you say. This picture was however cause for great celebration at our house yesterday! Because you see Mikayla did this all by herself, yes that is right after months of waiting for this day she finally did it, she stood up by herself!!!! We were in the girls' room, I was helping Jennifer with something and Mikayla was just crawling around. She got into this triangle position, with her bottom in the air and hands on the floor, that she often does. All the sudden she pushed up with her hands and was standing on her own in the middle of the floor!! If our windows had been open and anyone was close to our house they would have heard lots of screaming, I went crazy! I started jumping up and down and cheering and then Jennifer joined in, she is one of her sisters biggest cheerleaders which is sweet. We then ran out to the living room so I could get a picture and the one above was the only one I got because, in true Mikayla style, once she figured out that I really wanted her to stand up again and again she didn't want to do it!

Instead she decided to grab a nearby book and read for a little bit. Shortly after this I left to go to church to help Bill and one of my girls' favorite people came, Jenny. Mikayla proceed to stand up several times for Jenny and Jennifer!

Today Mikayla kept going strong with the standing but her dad had yet to see her do this exciting new skill. So tonight at bedtime we were trying hard to get her to stand up for him but she just wanted to brush her teeth!

This girl loves to brush her teeth! It is funny, anytime she is in the bathroom she asks to brush her teeth. I guess it is a good thing to want to do. Eventually we got her to stand up in the kitchen and then she went crazy! She would stand for a few seconds, sit down and then stand right back up, it is fun to watch! She was so very excited for herself too!

Just a picture of Jennifer yesterday cheering her sister on to stand up. My kindergartner is doing great at school by the way!

Mikayla has been missing Jennifer while she is away at school. So she is finding fun things to do around the house to make the hours go by faster. Most days she empties the lid drawers, every lid we have that goes on a plastic container is thrown onto the floor. A few days ago it was the towel drawer. This sweet girl sat and played with these towels for the longest time.

It was a mess, yes but she does great at picking up as well, she loves to help! More pictures of the standing girl will be coming soon, I hope! Hopefully walking will be coming soon!