I stood up this evening...

. . . for the first time ever. Yes, I may have used Mom a little bit to get up there, but in the end there I was.

What, you ask, inspired me to reach for the sky? Mom's plate of Chinese food.

Some things, you see, are simply in the blood, like my love of music and the outdoors.

I did not get the Chinese food. Like Paloma, my parents are still too quick for me. I got a "teething biscuit" instead. Woof.

--Maddie