Joe is on the edge of a real breakthrough this week.

He’s been getting better and better at standing without help, and now when we let go … he shuffles toward us. Without holding on!

Here he is at a friend’s birthday party, coming at me with one wobbly step. (The next day, he gave Patrick four steps before falling over.)

Because we are working on “Joe time,” it will be a good long while before these first wobbly steps become real, effortless walking. But we are so excited!