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To the Moon ... or at least the Third Floor: Jordan's mastered stairs. She first tried climbing them at my friend Lance's house on New Year's Eve, and quickly decided that if she could do those stairs, she could do the slightly steeper ones back at home. After a few trial attempts that took her three or four stairs, she finally climbed all the way to the second floor. The motivation? Mommy was sitting at the top of the stairs along side our oldest cat, Cougar.

Free Standing Baby: Jordan's managed to stand on her own for a handful of seconds at a time. We're still quite a ways from walking, but we're getting there. The grandparents think she'll do it by Valentine's Day, but I thinking her birthday (March 26) may be more likely.