A Weekend of Firsts

It's amazing to watch Evan learn and get older. You watch him everyday and think that he's relatively the same as he was the day before. Then, suddenly, he'll do something that you know he couldn't do just a day ago. That was how it was this weekend. Every time we'd look at him he was doing something new.

On Saturday morning we really noticed him start to smile in response to our smiles. Up until that point most of his smiles were probably related to some digestive issue (yes, even the adorable smile in the brown bear fleece). When I pulled him out of his crib Sunday morning and put him on the changing table his face just lit up and I knew that he was smiling at me.


On Sunday night we had more firsts. Evan was playing with his little toy gym with plastic animals hanging down over him that jingle and rattle and play music. Up until this point he has basically paid no attention to that toy even when mommy and daddy jingle and rattle and shake the toys like crazy. This time, Evan suddenly realized it was there. He was focusing on it and actually trying to make it move. Granted, he wasn't very accurate with making it move, but he was still trying. He would bring his arm up to one of the toys and bump into it. He's got a ways to go before he's grabbing onto things, but he's getting there. Up until this point we've been pretty sure he had no clue that his hands were attached to him.


He's also starting to make some little cooing noises that resemble talking. These are still few and far between and interspersed in numerous other non-talking noises, and boy, does he make a lot of these noises. He grunts, he chirps, he squeaks, and of course he cries. These noises have given him the unfortunate nickname of velociraptor (a very small and vocal dinosaur that we've seen in Jurassic Park). Although all these noises are just fine, I love the cooing. It makes him seem like he's really trying to communicate.


He's getting older everyday. I can't wait to see what he does tomorrow!