Wow, when it rains it pours. We’ve had a series of firsts with Nathan this week. His first trip to the beach is right now ongoing and I know Danielle wants to talk about that so I will leave it for her.

The other firsts for this week however I am taking ….

On Wednesday we saw his first smile of recognition. He’s been smiling a lot for the past several weeks but on Wednesday I was sitting with him on the couch and Danielle walked in the room he started beaming the biggest happiest grin I have ever seen him give. It was awesome. Incidentally, I am still waiting for mine.

Also this week he has started “goo”ing. He’s been ‘talking’ in his baby talk way for a couple weeks but this was the first time he actually started saying “goo” which was pretty cool. He says it a lot now.

Then finally on Friday he managed to roll himself onto his side. We put him in the pack and play to sleep while at the beach and when I came back to check on him a couple minutes later he was lying on his side trying to get onto his stomach. So I put him on his back and watched and sure enough he pushed himself over onto his side. I have been trying to teach him how to get the rest of the way over but he’s not getting it.

That’s all for now. We’ll have some beach pictures and videos in a couple days.