the silly baby is trying to stand up with no hands! It's ridiculous. She grabs onto something, pulls herself up to standing, wobbles, and then very very carefully lets go with one hand, and then the other. And immediately falls on her butt. We just laugh at her, and then she laughs at us, but I feel a little concerned at how cavalier she's being. She's getting way ahead of her skills. She's not even very good at crawling; she does a normal hands and knees crawl, and then she switches to a hands and feet spider walk. I can't tell if she does it because she doesn't like the way the ground feels on her knees or if she thinks it's more advanced to be using her feet.

I went out to a movie tonight with a friend. The first time in a cinema since... the Dark Knight, or maybe WallE, anyway a long time. John stayed home and babysat. The mall was so crowded with Emirati teenagers, boys and girls both, I've never seen it so packed. But I don't go out much, like I said, so maybe it's like that all the time.

We went to the Khalidiya children's park today. John is crunching on the nyu story, so iola and I went alone.