06.30.13 - Sunday

You are rapidly becoming a huge fan of your big sister. I feel this is significant to record because I have no doubt that someday you will be whining about her, and this time in your life needs to be in print.

You follow her every action with eager anticipation; giggling as she pulls faces at you and occasionally bops you on the head (in love). You will turn towards the sound of her voice to see what fascinating activity she is up to. I am finding she can quiet you down when you're fussing for me just because she is such a distraction for you.

Love on her little boy. Big sisters are useful things to have on your side.

06.19.13 - Wednesday

You bit your father tonight. Bit. Not gnawed on. Bit. Why is this significant, you ask? Because it means that you popped out a tooth with absolutely no fussing and completely took us by surprise.

Don't be in such a hurry to grow up, little one. Really. You're only four and a half months. You really don't need a mouthful of teeth yet. After all, one tooth leads to another tooth, and that leads to food, and then eating food leads to drinking coffee, and drinking coffee leads to staying up until 3am writing papers and being in college and my baby boy will be grown up!

OK, slight exaggeration, but the point stands. Slow down.

And congratulations!

06.04.13 - Tuesday

When are you going to manage to roll from back to tummy little man? I'm watching you struggle through this new and difficult task, and you can't just seem to make it. Mind you, you're scooting large distances on your belly (and by large I mean a foot or so) with absolutely no problems. I foresee a lot of chasing you coming up very soon. I shall be patient in the meantime as you work on this second rolling skill--even if it does mean flipping you back on your stomach a lot because you wake up angry from being on your back!

05.26.13 - Saturday

New experience #5872:

Memorial day weekend--you went to a lake. Dipped your toes in the sand and the water. Neither of which you were very impressed with. However, you did have a good time laying on your back and your stomach, looking around at the world.

05.21.13 - Tuesday

It's been a busy day for you. You started out by rolling over last night. It made for a long night because you kept waking yourself up. You are not a back sleeper. You don't sleep on your back; it wakes you up. However, you do sleep beautifully on your tummy. But in learning how to roll over, you kept putting yourself on your back and then shortly thereafter, waking yourself up. Multiple times. All night long.

Of course when I tried to get video of it, you wouldn't oblige, always rolling over as soon as the video camera was no longer out.

The second new skill you began working on was giggling. I was dancing with you, and apparently either my tone or the movement was the funniest thing you've ever seen because you  just kept cracking up. So cute!

05.19.13 - Sunday

Today was your 100th day of life!

You have grown so much in the last 100 days. You've gone from my tiny, cuddly bundle to almost twice your weight, several inches longer, sitting up on your own, smiling at the world, jabbering away, and learning everything you can as quickly as you can.

05.18.13 - Saturday

You went swimming for the first time today. We have tickets to the local water park, so equipped with a new mesh ring sling and a swim diaper, we went to the pool! You didn't think much of the wave pool (you were fine with it until the waves actually started going--then you shrieked at me),but you took a nice nap on me as we floated down the Lazy River. I have a feeling you're going to be swimming a lot this summer, so get used to it little boy.