Stand and Be Free

Cole's standing skills are beginning to emerge. I haven't been able to catch it on camera because the longest I've seen him stand independently is about 30 seconds. It started out with trying to push to a stand against Buddy but Cole didn't want to put too much weight on him for some reason and when he got to a stand with Buddy sitting next to him, Cole just stood there batting at Buddy's ear for about half of a minute. Today he wanted to play in the garbage can but I was trying to clean it so I took his hands off and he just stood there while I cleaned. Chris was also trying to get him to stand - and he did and Cole even took a step. So far with walking, he will walk with a walker that he stands behind and can push around and he will walk a short distance when you're holding one of his hands. My feeling is that he probably can walk a little, but has zero reason to do so when he can almost run on all fours like a bear and get everywhere really fast...not sure how we compete with that without inserting some peer pressure ;D