Lex rolled over today –
twice!! Alan put him down for a nap today on his belly. A
little while later I heard him babbling to himself (Lex that
is, not Alan) so I went in to pick him up and found him lying
on his back with his arm through the crib bars. He gave me a
big ol’ grin :) Later I put him on his belly on his playmat and
he promptly rolled over onto his back. Alan and I both
applauded him. We grabbed the camera and I rolled him back onto
his belly, but he just got fussy and wouldn’t roll over for the
camera. Oh well. :) He has also been particularly hammy lately.
Lots of big grins and silly, happy faces. And new developments
every day. He now holds on to things pretty good (when he wants
to), picks things up and brings them to his mouth, gets his
head and body up and leans on his elbows, and has pretty good
leg and hand coordination. He’s even starting to sit up a bit
(in fact he’s sitting on the table in front of me right now
while I type around him). He’s still a little unstable with the
sitting though and tends to fall over :) Silly boy. I don’t
have much time to post a lot of pics, but here are a few of my
favorites from the past few days.

I’m not sure what the official definition
of sleeping through the night is, but last night, for the first
time, Lex slept for 8 hours straight (9:30pm-5:30am). I was
psyched! Of course, it would have been even better if he slept
until 8am :) But I guess sleeping late comes later. So he woke
up at 5:30, nursed, and was back asleep by 6am. Yay. I crawled
back in bed, but it was all just a tease because he was back up
at 6:30. So we played for awhile (well, he played, I ate cereal
and read about Chief Justice Renquist’s death) and now he’s
very tired and talking to himself in his crib. I suspect he’ll
be alseep by the time I finish this post. Such a good baby :) I
was reading the Dr. Sears book yesterday (considered to be
the baby manual) and Lex is right on
target with all development milestones, with one exception. The
book says that in the 4th month he should be able to support
his weight for very short periods of time and now is a good
time to start holding him up to help encourage him to hold his
own weight. Lex has been doing that since about 6 weeks. He
also has been talking a lot lately. He’s very good at the
aahhhhs and oohhhhs. :)

Not
alseep yet.