Yesterday little EC turned 11 months. She celebrated by kind-of-mastering a new skill: standing up. She’s still not quite there, but yesterday, during her time trials, she logged an impressive and still-not-beaten 20 seconds of free standing. You can see in her eyes that she totally gets it. She just needs to get her feet and legs in tune with what she already knows.

As though for a late month-birth-day present, I got to check out her damaged tooth today (she was still enough for long enough for me to do it) and lo, I saw nothing out of the ordinary. So she still has a raw lip where she broke it open, but the tooth looks perfectly normal, with all the discoloration that I noticed two days ago just…gone. Not sure just why that happened, but I’m grateful. And, having had to clear her mouth of several things that she stuffed in it today, I can attest that her bite is just as strong as it ever was.