Lots of stuff to report...

Today Art clapped for the first time! And then he seemed to want to exercise his new skill because he clapped a lot this evening - crawl, clap, sit up, clap, crawl, clap some more... And he's gotten into dropping things off his high chair these last few days. Drop, watch it land and/or roll, watch mommy pick it up. Drop it again... Another thing we've noticed just in the last day or so is him standing AND doing something, like eating a pear (!) or picking up a basket (!!!). Tonight he got himself up to standing while holding both handles of his basket of blocks. Pretty cool. He's also just started to find it fun to knock down a tower of blocks. This is all in the last few days, as if there's just some sort of development explosion!