little show off...

It's been a fun and busy weekend. Jack's big event was on Saturday, when his friend Gavin (in the striped shirt above) hosted the Thursday playgroup for a cookout. It was a blast, 9 babies and all their parents and lots of hamburgers. Jack had lots of fun playing with other people's toys and trying to grab and "pet" his friends in much the same way he "pets" the do-- ie, grabbing and yanking on... He also decided to show off and sat up from his belly for the first time. The second picture above was snapped mere seconds after he did it-- he'd scooted backwards all the way accross the room and then, when he had literally backed himself into a corner, he kinds of put his legs out to the sides in the splits, pushed, and sat himself up. Surprised us quite a bit! :) He did it 2 more times while we were there, and also moved around my twisting and reaching for things, and rocked on his hands and knees a few times. It was terribly exciting.

Now that he is making progress towards mobility (which is a tremendous relief to me) it seems to be progressing so fast. He did nothing but sit for over 3 months and then, in the past week, we've been adding new skills nearly every day. While I wanted to see progress I am not sure I am ready for full-on mobility to be here so soon!

The rest of the weekend was more exciting for mommy than for Jack, though he DID get to spend Saturday evening with Melinda and Will who babysat for us while we went out to the WSC benefit. We were very proud of Jack for gong to bed well, which allowed us to go out after benefit with some friends and feel like "young people" again for a few minutes. I even had 2 drinks! Crazy girl...

Today Jack was in the happiest mood after his first nap. All crinkly nosed bunny smiles. He is really starting to get a sense of humour and appreciates when we make funny faces. Another new skill/game that he plays is to pull his bib up over his face and leave it there (when he's laying on his back) so that we'll start to say "Where's Jack"-- whereupon he giggles like crazy til we pull the bib down and say "peek." Then he'll put the bib back up again!