Two milestones to report!

Well, this week we have had two more items of interest occur in our house. On Saturday, Greyson attempted his first step. It was kinda interesting. He stood up from the ground (meaning he didn't pull himself up on anything) and then decided to pick up his foot and step toward something. It was almost like he didn't even think about it first - just did it. Then he got this stunned look on his face and dropped back to a sit. It was kinda surreal seeing it happen. He tried it again later, so I think this is the real thing. I can't believe that he is only a few days shy of 10 months old and WALKING!! And climbing.... here is a picture of him on top of our very little climber in the backyard. He climbed up on top of this all by himself! I decided that I wasn't going to help him and see how far he got. And wouldn't you know it! He made it all the way up! He also went head first down the slide part, but don't worry, I caught him before he hit the ground.

Greyson's mountaintop

Looking ready to drive off somewhere.

The other milestone reached in our house - Madelyn got up in the middle of the night last night and went potty all by herself and then just went back to bed. She didn't even try to wake us up. I find this to be a big step! She is still wearing pull-ups at night because she only makes it to the toilet dry about half the time in the morning. Ben isn't too keen on the idea of her getting up in the middle of the night. He was even less happy about her getting out of bed to go potty at 9pm tonight. I don't know exactly where this is heading but I hope that she isn't going to abuse this privelege of getting out of bed! I'm being optimistic and thinking that she won't though, as long as we, the parents, play it cool and don't blow it out of porportion. Anybody have any advice for us?