first shiner

hiya, mr. man!

well, last night you scored your first shiner. it's small, but it breaks my heart. you and daddy were playing on the floor and you did one of your (now infamous) i'm-mobile-really-i-am-watch-me-lunge-out-of-your-arms moves, and you smacked your face on the edge of the bottom shelf of one of the side tables. i wanted to cry right along with you. your little cheek got all puffy and red. this morning, the swelling is down, but there's a small blue bruise right under your eye.

in other news, you're doing pretty well. we're attempting to keep you swaddle free again...it got so that you were breaking out of your double swaddle. now we put you in footie pjs and in a sleep sack, and we put you down on your tummy to keep your arms from pummeling you. it's working out well for you so far. i feel scared and guilty putting you on your tummy, but you roll both ways and have great arm and chest strength. i've also seen you put yourself on your tummy in the crib when i put you on your back (to watch your fishies for a bit when you have trouble settling). so, i'm trying not to worry too much. we keep blankets out of your crib, and you have only small toys. we also put a breathable bumper in so that you don't get your limbs stuck like sissy did.

so...those fishies...you have figured out how to turn them on and you have started doing so in the middle of the night. we hear the music and you talking to them. one time, you even managed to soothe yourself back to sleep watching them. those fishies were a big hit with sissy, too.

you are not crawling yet, but you are scooting quite a bit, and sometimes you roll to get where you want to go. you scoot out of anger, and you get pretty mad anytime we lay you down now. you want so badly to be up and DOING like sissy that you get frustrated. you tried to imitate sissy for the first time yesterday. she was dancing and jumping while you were standing and holding daddy's hands...and you tried to jump and thrash just like sissy. i'm sure there will be much, much more of this as you get older. right now, sissy thinks it's really cool to try to get you to imitate her, but i know shrieks of "mom, he's copying me!!" are just around the corner. it's a good thing i'm so old...maybe i will be partially deaf by the time this all starts ;-p

i love you buddy!
-mommy