It's tummy time all the time...

Even when sleeping!

This past week, Simon figured out how to sleep on his tummy. And it seems he will sleep no other way. I've heard and read that once they are able to roll over, it's okay to let babies sleep on their tummies. And since he appears to like it so much, that's just what we're going to let him do!

Catching up

More photos from the weekend my parents and grandma visited!

A beautiful day

It was such a nice day out (in the mid-60s in November!) we went out for a walk this afternoon. Simon very much enjoyed himself in the Baby Bjorn. Two notes on the photo: 1) Simon is showing off his puppy dog bib - he needs bibs a lot more these days due to the sudden onslaught of drool. 2) He's been really working on sucking his thumb and/or fingers. On our walk, he happily sucked his right thumb almost the entire time!

Shake, rattle & roll

More rolling over, this time after playing with his favorite new toy!

Shake, rattle & roll from Anne Reynolds on Vimeo.

Check me out

We caught some video of Simon rolling over!

Showing off from Anne Reynolds on Vimeo.

Now that he has started, he seems unable to stop. He wakes himself up almost every night after ending up on his tummy. It wouldn't be a big deal, except he's usually pretty unhappy to find himself there, and hasn't yet reminded himself of how to roll himself back to his back. He'll figure it out eventually!

Rolling, rolling, rolling....

I took this video last week, when Simon was working hard to roll from his back to his tummy:

Trying to roll from Anne Reynolds on Vimeo.

We've watched him get *this close* to getting all the way to his tummy for a while. But today, he did it! Nanny T sent us this picture:

He definitely looks like he's surprised himself! I have yet to actually see him roll over completely, but I've seen the evidence -- after we put him to bed tonight, I had to go in twice to flip him back over because he'd rolled to his tummy. Not a good way to sleep!

Four generations

We had a fabulous weekend. Sunday was my mom's 60th birthday, and her present was a trip to Boston. She and my dad flew out from Minneapolis, and as an added bonus, my grandma flew up from Florida!

During the weekend, we had an opportunity to take a photo of the four generations. I was especially eager to get a photo of the four of us that was similar to this one:

This is obviously a photo of a photo - the original is in Sweden. My grandfather's cousin Tage had it in a photo album, and I took the picture of it when I visited there in 2002. In the photo are my great-grandpa John, my grandpa Floyd, my mom and me.

Here is the updated version! It took many tries to get one where Simon was smiling and the rest of us were also looking at the camera, but we were happy with the end result!