Heidi is getting big!

Today Heidi pulled herself up to a standing position by herself for the first time! We have been wondering when it would happen. She has taken her time as far as that goes, but we knew that she would do it when she was ready. Just in the past couple of weeks we have seen her start breaking out of her shell. She is definitely not a risk taker and is pretty cautious as far as moving around and trying to do things on her own goes. Just until recently she would not even try to walk holding on to anything except our hands. Even if we let go of only one hand she was too scared to go further. Like I said, in the past couple of weeks she has slowly built her confidence up and will now walk a little bit more just holding on to one of our hands. But usually she still feels more confident when she is holding on to a couch with one hand and hold one of our fingers with the other hand. She is getting there though! This evening she did a little bit of cruising even without holding on to our hands. She is still very cautious about it though. Here is a video of the second time she pulled up today. I missed getting the first time on camera, but this is only a few minutes later. She was very proud of herself!