Liam and Gibson: Giggles and Grins

I feel like someone hit the fast forward button on my little man. He is growing up oh so fast. Sunday, August 14th, was his official 3 month birthday. Yesterday, I took him to get his other two vaccinations, so now he has had the full round of his two-month shots spaced out over a month. I'm comfortable with that decision because he had zero side effects both times. He even smiled big grins at the nurse while she gave him his rototeq vaccine. It's oral, and it must have been tasty.

Liam is developing right along at a fairly good pace, I think. He's very alert (he always has been). He loves to give me the stare down and follows my movements around the room. He will also move his eyes when I move a toy around. He's really good now at grasping his toys. He's recently started holding his hands together like he's plotting and scheming.

We are still working on tummy time, but even though he hates it, he's not behind on what he can do during it, he just protests while doing it! He's really good at lifting and turning his head, and he has just recently started trying to push up on his arms a little bit. Once he starts really using those arms, he'll be good to go!

In the past week or so, he's been pulling his legs up a ton when he's lying on his back. It won't be too long before he starts grabbing those toes. Since he's started doing the leg thing, he's figured out how to roll from his back to his side. Today he was on the floor rolling on to his side, and he was trying so hard to roll all the way to his tummy. He hasn't made it yet, though. He won't like being on his tummy once he gets there, though!

He has also made great improvements on holding his head up on his on. Unless he's really tired, he will hold it good and steady if we hold him in a sitting position or are holding him in our arms. Yesterday, I sat him in my lap for 15 minutes while I was on the computer, and he held his head up on his own the whole time. We are still working on sitting up in the Bumbo. He can go a few second on his own, and he doesn't really get floppy-headed in it anymore, but he always leans forward and then can't support his head on his own for very long. I'm not sure why he won't lean back in it.

His brand new skill that he just unveiled last night is laughing! He's been making a sort of grunting noise that we could tell was the precursor to laughing for awhile, but no real giggles. Last night, we were getting him ready for his bath and Will was getting him undressed while he was on his changing pad (which is on the floor). Will walked away for a minute or two, and when he came back he lifted Liam's onesie over his head, and he gave Will a really big laugh! We both heard it, and it was so sweet and funny! Then he laughed again, so we knew it wasn't a fluke. Then when we sat him in his tub, he got a giggling fit and laughed for several minutes. Then he wee wee'd in the tub. It was a fun bathtime! We were so happy to hear those giggles. I've been trying all day to get him to do it again, though, and I guess he's not in the laughing mood today. No luck. Hopefully he will starting laughing all the time soon. For now, we'll just have to do with his big open mouth grins he gives us!