What are we going to do with you, Ben?

"Who says I need PT?"

This was said by his PT today. In a good way! :) So, we had his 6 mths progress meeting 1 week ago. At that time, Ben had met all his goals that they made when he was 5 mths old, so his PT had to make new goals. So, those new goals were, Crawl in a 4 pt position, go from crawling position to sitting position, stand up from a kneeling position, cruise, and finally walk. Well, this weekend, Ben decided to accomplish 3 of those goals! All of a sudden, he started crawling on all 4's with his belly off the floor. Not far, but he is doing it. He is crawling that way for maybe a couple of feet, then he reverts to army crawling. His PT would like him to be using that type of crawling 50% or more of the time. He also started going from the crawling position in to a sitting position just today. AND, for the last couple of days, he has been going from kneeling to standing. So, the physical therapist came today and saw him doing all of this and said, "oh my goodness! I just can't believe it! What are we going to do with you, Ben?" So, now we are working on facilitating cruising. It will probably still be a while before he is walking on his own. He is still very unsure of himself and will try to reach a hand out like he is going to grab on to something else and walk over to it, but then he will pull his hand back in and stay where he was. Though, there are times he is fearless and will pull up to stand and just let go like he thinks he knows how to walk already! :) He still has some work to do. But, maybe he will be walking by his first birthday. We are still working on him using his pincer grasp to pick up foods as well as working on him getting the foods to actually go IN his mouth instead of in his hand and him forgetting where it is until it's a mushy mess. But, he has come a long way since December, and we are so happy about that!