You learned how to pull yourself up this weekend! You are very proud of yourself, and excited to the point that you can barely sleep. Every time we put you in your crib, you see the wooden slats around you and you reach up and climb to your knees and then to your feet, and then you smile this huge smile and proclaim, "EEEEEEeeeee", which is your way of saying, "look Mama, I am a stander! I stand!" You do this every chance you get.
The only problem is that you don't know how to get down. So you get up and look out over the edge of your crib, and then...you get tired. Then you cry, and I come and lay you back down and remind you that you have to sleep in order to have enough energy to grow and learn. But those wooden slats are just begging for you to climb them again, and so you roll over and pull yourself up again, only to realize how tired you are once more.
It's hard to grow, because you don't learn all the things you need to know at the same time. Sometimes you learn to stand before you learn to get down again. You learn how to push yourself before you learn how to nap. You learn to love before you learn how to guard your heart. In life, you'll want to be balanced, but with growth coming in spurts, there will be times when you can't be. And that's ok - learning the other side of the coin will come soon enough.
For now, we're pretty darn proud of your standing-ness.
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