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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