Tummy Time

So in order to encourage muscle development and other good stuff, you're supposed to give babies some time on their tummies throughout the day. When put on their tummy, babies are supposed to try to hold up their heads (to strengthen their neck) and eventually try to push up with their arms and legs to work up to crawling.

Caleb is very active when he's on his back; he's always kicking his legs, waving his arms, and moving his head. But most of the time, once we put him on his stomach he does his awesome impression of a beached whale. That or he just starts eating his fist or something. As he's gotten older, he's definitely put a little more effort into holding up that big head of his (relative to the rest of his body). Here's 2 videos of his tummy time attempts, so you can see when he's not very successful (but happy!), and when he's slightly more successful at holding his head up ;)

Now that he's moved on from his trademark beached whale tummy time move, he's developed a new tummy time activity that's really kind of gross (but Gabe finds it awfully funny ;) ). For the past few days, after a good 10 minutes of tummy time, Caleb lifts his head up, spits up, and then plummets his face into his spit up. It's like a face plant straight into a puddle of spit up milk. GROSS. No videos of that ;) phew.

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long overdue post...

Yay! Little Caleb is 3 months old as of the day before yesterday. We've been meaning to start a blog about Caleb & his adventures, developments, mishaps, and discoveries for some time but never quite got around to it until today. There's so much we would have written about in these first 3 months, but hey, better late than never! Here's a few random thoughts from the first three months, more to be added later...

Birth: I still can't believe this precious little boy used to live in my belly. I also can't believe that things like fingers, toes, noses etc can come in such a small size :). Caleb was very smiley right from the start and definitely a very good boy. not much crying (even when taking shots!).

Diaper Adventures: While we hoped our first kid would be a boy, we learned that there are some things you need to be prepared for when you have a baby boy. Caleb was surprisingly good at aiming that Golden shower at his loving diaper changers (especially at Gabe!). It wasn't just the golden shower though...there are other things that can travel great distances in it's liquid state (since he only drinks milk right now). :P After a few weeks of great messes, we've learned how to shield ourselves and take precautions. But yes, there are many many joys of parenthood. For me, this wasn't one of them :)

Noises: I must say, Caleb makes the cutest noises. His first noise (other than the crying wimpers) was "awwww" which he would say after every sneeze (check out video examples of this during Caleb's first week and just last week). It's really funny especially when he has multiple sneezes and multiple "awww"s, which unfortunately is difficult to catch on video. Despite what it seems like, I don't film him every second of the day ;) Last month, he started making all sorts of other noises, mostly "eh"s, "ah"s, and "coo"s, but also "whooooo" and the very rare "hiiiiiiii" (which also is sometimes just "eyeeee"). He's also said "uh oh" a few times after he relieves himself :) I guess he'll work up to mama ;)

Caleb's favorite things: Caleb is a very lucky boy. He's got lots of toys, stuffed animals, activity centers, etc. But I must say, Caleb's all time favorite thing to look at is Ceilings. He can stare at ceilings for hours and hours and be very amused. Second to ceilings is lights...or best yet, ceiling lights. Although I must say, Caleb recently discovered how yummy his fingers are just a few weeks ago...he seems to LOVE that perhaps even more than ceilings. (here's a video that shows just how delicious his little fingers are)

Hmm...this is getting long...so, here's where i stop. To be continued...

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