Hooray Charlie is starting to smile!After a month and a half of negative reinforcement (poop, crying, spit-up, and more crying), we are finally getting positive responses. Phew.
It's amazing just how much easier parenting is to handle when I can look forward to those adorable moments when my baby smiles at me. I was beginning to wonder just when the "parenthood is so rewarding" and "it's all worth it" aspect was going to come in to play (hence my lack of posts over the last month and a half), and it is finally here. What a relief!
We're trying to discover more and more things that will make Charlie laugh, but so far we've got pinching/poking his cheeks, poking/wiggling his nose, and blowing puffs of air in his face. And, naturally, accompanying any of those actions with weird noises helps. We're working on getting him to smile when we tickle him, but he still doesn't know what to think when we tickle his belly or sides, and I'm not sure he's even aware of his toes—he better watch out when he finally does realize those little wiggly things down there are his, because I can't resist tickling baby toes.
Life is good when baby smiles.
:)
