BTW, Allison started pulling herself up into standing position about two weeks ago. She's a little bit haphazard and fearless, and has more strength than coordination - translation: she tumbled a lot, especially at the beginning, and sometimes has some really weird stances, like her legs really far apart, or one foot facing one direction, and her other leg twisted in another awkward direction.
When Uncle Barrett visited just over a week ago, she officially became a crawler. I caught her crawling a few times before, but she didn't "know" about crawling, so when she wanted to get somewhere, she got on her belly and army crawled. But when Barrett was here, we went to a Fun Center, and I put Allison on the ground with a large area for her to cover, so apparently she realized that it was much easier and faster to cover lots of ground when she was elevated. She is a very cute crawler. Last night, I took her to a cub scouts pack meeting (I was recently asked to serve as a Webelos leader), and before the meeting started, she crawled over to where a bunch of 8-9-year-old boys were and started hanging out with them. The boys surrounded her and all played with her, and my friend's 8-year-old autistic son, who loves babies (and is always begging his mom to have a ninth child - a baby girl), especially enjoyed her company. I don't have any pictures of that, but I'll include a couple pictures from the last few days.
