A Big Day for Benjamin

It wasn't that long ago that Benjamin reached the milestone of sitting up by himself; but as it turned out, he suddenly got in a rush and jumped ahead to the next milestone.  Eight days after the sitting-up milestone, Benjamin pulled himself up to a standing position for the first time!

It happened yesterday while Benjamin was playing with some toys in his room as I did some work in the other rooms upstairs.  I was going in and out of my room (which adjoins his) and "happened" to go into my room and stand by my dresser, from which I had a diagonal view right into his room, at the precise moment that Benjamin grabbed hold of the side of this brown cube and managed to hoist himself up into a standing position.  

You can imagine how wildly I cheered, and the other kids came running at double speed to see their littlest brother's achievement.

One of the advantages of being the sixth child in a family is having a rather large cheering section at any given time.  ;-)

I did not have my camera in hand to capture the exact moment when Benjamin stood up for the first time, but I snapped the above pictures just a few minutes later while he was still feeling the thrill of what he had accomplished.  :)  And later, I took this picture of him playing with Moriah...

...just because he's so dear, and cute, and cuddly in his cozy sleeper, and loved.

Very, very loved.