Our lives haven’t been too exciting in the past week. But Brit has lots of new tricks that are fun. He really doesn’t like to be on his stomach for too long, and doesn’t like to roll over. It’s like he’s forgotten how or something.  Sometimes when he’s on his way over he stops himself and makes sure he stays on his stomach.

He tries to roll from his back to his stomach though. He reaches for toys and things to the side and only needs a little push to get over. But, the biggest “on the move” moment was when he scooted 180 degrees! I put him on his stomach facing one direction and dangled a toy to his left so he would try to roll over, but he started moving his arms and legs instead and ended up facing the opposite direction. I should have gotten pictures, but was too busy being amazed. He’s always kicking his legs and pushing. Sometimes we find him in a completely different position than when we looked last. We’re sure he’s going to be a swimmer or a track star.

Brit is practically a genius too. He’s already getting the concept of “object permanence” which doesn’t really start till 7 or 8 months. It’s the concept that when you can’t see something you still know that it exists. I showed him his ball and then put it under his burp cloth so it wasn’t visible and asked him where his ball was. He immediately reached toward the cloth and tried to move it. I thought it was a fluke, so I did it again and he reached out and touched the ball under the cloth! So, we tried a different toy. He did it again! This was a couple of days ago, so I tried it again today and he still knows what he’s doing. He kept reaching for the cloth to take it away–and actually succeeded in pulling it all the way off once. Then, I just put the cloth down with nothing under it and he didn’t reach for it at all. He looked around for the toy.

Every once in a while I get this still….It’s my favorite! He just looks like an angel.