Smiles, Giggles and Head Holding Up!

We officially have a smiley little man!
It's not just the occasional smile when he feels like moving his face, we now have a few things that make him smile:)

He thought it was funny throwing up on Mommy and Daddy's bed!

If you poke his nose and in an extremely obnoxious baby voice say "Noah's nose!" you get a little smile and if you go back and forth from his nose, cheeks and bottom lip, the smile grows and grows! Jesse was changing his diaper and he wasn't too happy about it and he stopped and tried to make him smile and he not only got a smile, but a giggle, too!  It was a pretty nice way to start Daddy's day off.



Something else that makes him smile (and we aren't sure why) is when he is screaming and unhappy and Emily yells back. Dunno why, but he stops screaming and we occasionally get a smile out of it and I'll take it!

He also is a fan of his car seat toys, the turtles on his Pack n' Play, and various other toys we have around the house. If you press the nose on his doggy in the car seat it lights up and sings, and it is an instant smile in the car and he loves it!



Another milestone type thing is the head holding up. He's always had fairly good head control, right after they put him on my chest at the hospital he lifted his head and looked around the room then up at me, but he's gotten much better and we don't have to worry about his head flopping back anymore.

He isn't a huge fan of tummy time, he doesn't hate it, but he would rather tummy time on someones chest than with the Boppy. When he uses the Boppy he lifts up his head, looks around, smiles at Mommy and then face plants after about 4 minutes.  The best moment yet was halfway through a bottle I was burping him and he plants his hands, lifts his head, looks me in the eye and lets out the loudest burp I've ever heard out of him! It was so loud my mom heard it in her room through a closed door, silly little boy!

All in all he's doing really well right now, growing too fast and stealing our hearts more and more each day! I think our next update will be on his kidney situation because we will have gone to the children's hospital at Stanford and will know how he's doing and what's going on at this point.