Standing

Dean recently learned how to stand up without grabbing anything. Now there is no stopping him!

Why won't he

SLEEP? My "baby" boy used to be a bad sleeper, he would fight going to sleep with everything he had. Some extreme rocking by dad used to be the only thing that would do the trick. Then, when he was a little older (3 months or so) he got to be on a (fairly) regular schedule of naps & night time. The schedule has been adusted, of course, but nap at 10, nap at 4, bed at 8 has worked for us since about 6 months.
In the last couple of weeks though my little boy has learned how to stand. At first he could pull himself up in his crib if he was in just the right sitting position, but now he is quite adept. Good Job, right?
But now, he won't do anything BUT stand in his crib. I put him down for "night-night" and give kisses & loveys and out I go. He plays for a bit, and then the arms-being-ripped-off screaming commences. One of us runs in, sure he is caught in the crib or something. Nope, he's just standing up in his crib, yelling his head off.
Yesterday, after about 2 hours, of this I put him into bed & laid down as well. I was HOPING that this would encourage him to lay down too. Instead he popped up like a jack in the box and screamed & cried (I think he even said mama) & wouldn't lay down.
Sometimes I miss the times when he was teeny-tiny and could only lay. Dang this "fun age".
(It actually is really fun, except for the sleeping)