Shake, rattle, and roll

Hahaha I crack myself up! Last night Seth broke his 4 night streak of waking up every 2 hours all night long. His longest stretch was still only 3:30-7am, but Eric had fed him at 3:30 so at least I got to stay in bed for 7 hours straight. I've read that sometimes sleep disturbances can occur when babies are learning new skills, and we've definitely got that going on (if it's not toofers). Yesterday was the first time I think Seth shook a rattle with purpose. It was so great. I shook it and then handed it to him and instead if immediately putting it in his mouth, he totally waved it around in the air. He's a genius, that one. He's also starting to make a bunch of new sounds with his mouth this week. Today I noticed he is making a kissing sound a lot. I'm pretty sure he's also trying to figure out how to razz. I've been blowing raspberries at him a lot and he's super jealous (he told me). He kind of sucks his lower lip in and then pops it back out over and over again. Then he'll stick his tongue out... he just hasn't figured out how to put it all together. So flippin' cute!

I just put him down for a nap unswaddled this morning. The last couple of days he has been seriously resisting being swaddled. Even if I do manage to get him velcro'd in before he whips his hands up to his face, he always manages to wiggle out eventually anyway. He's so close to rolling over on his tummy too I feel like it's probably best to kick the habit sooner rather than later. I've been worried though because that kid is always movin' and when I lay him down he just sticks his arms in the air and waves them all around, sometimes punching himself in the face. Seems like it would be a little hard to settle down like that. So this morning I just gently held his one arm in my hand. His other one slowly roved around for a bit, absently scratching and poking at his face, but eventually his eyes did start to close. I let go of his arm and it immediately went up by his head but he didn't open his eyes. So I left him laying there in his I surrender pose. That lasted about 25 minutes and I could not get him to go back to sleep to save my life. I fed him and he chowed down like a starving baby in Africa so I guess he was just hungry (< 2 hours since his last meal). Always keeping me guessing! Yesterday he went for 6 hours where he didn't seem to want to eat at all.

Yesterday I got him to laugh a bunch. I had him on my shins as I rolled on my back side to side (a good ab workout by the way) and he was giggling up a storm. I'm always nervous about doing that though, I just never know when spit up will come flying out all over me. He was also laughing when I bounced him up and down singing "Ride a little pony, go to town."

We are both looking forward to a visit from Gramby this weekend for Mother's Day. Yay!