The New Zoolander

Also wanted to include a few photos from Viana's modeling portfolio. Because we've been told about 3 million times that she looks like a Gerber Baby, we decided to see if she had a shot in the baby modeling industry. So in the span of a whirlwind week, Alexis put together a portfolio photo sheet, hired an agent, and made several trips to L.A. for casting calls...specifically for the Baby Gap Holiday commercials. Unfortunately, after several callbacks, she didn't get the part, however she did to a photo shoot in San Diego for Infantino, a baby product company. The photos below are from her photo sheet.

Somebody figured out how to stand up today! Not only that, but she stood up and only needed one hand to steady herself. We knew she was working on this for the past couple of weeks, flopping over on the bed, doing downward-facing dog yoga poses to get ready, and there was one previous standing incident but we weren't fast enough with the camera. So this is the first OFFICIAL standing. Viana seems to have skipped right over crawling and moved on to advanced motorskills!

It's hard to believe that in only 8 months she's progressed to this already, but as you can see she was very excited about it, as were mom and dad.

This weekend will be her first airplane ride to her first wedding. No doubt there will be many more firsts to come.