Our little Ave thought he'd start standing today, all by himself, not holding onto anything, he's done it a few times now. He's still so small it almost doesn't look right to see him free standing, but it's cute and he thinks he's hot stuff standing up even holding onto stuff. At 9 months he has 5 teeth, his favorite foods are whole blueberries and meatloaf, has even more red hair (esp on the sides like a clown, oh yes!), crawls without his knees, loves to read books, learned to crawl up the stairs umm yesterday, laughs a lot and is so sweet to be around. We love you Avery.