Milestones

Watching Jack learn and grow it's hard to pinpoint the time and place of each milestone. If I were a better mom I would have a big baby book that had the date of his first smile, first laugh or first time he rolled over, but I don't do so well with that. Tonight I thought I would take a minute to remember some firsts and give the approximate ages of each of them.
-First real smile (we think it was a real smile and not just gas even though they say real smiles don't happen this early) 3 weeks, we say it was a real smile because he did it in response to our voices and smiles.
-First time rolling over, 2 months, but then he didn't do it consistently until about 4 months old.
-Sitting up on his own, 5 months
-Getting up on hands and feet 5 1/2 months
-Moving forward on belly (baby butterfly, like the swim stroke) 6 months
-First laugh, can't remember exactly, but he's been doing it since at least 4 months old, and he does it like crazy now
-First syllables dadadada, mamamama, babababa, and fishy noise with lips, all around 6 months
-Moved from crawling position to sitting up: 7 months (he did that yesterday, and mastered the skill today)
-First solid food, rice cereal, 5 months and he hated it!

It seems like there have been so many more, as each day he amazes us with something new. My favorite thing right now is his really excited uncontrollable laugh. He is crazy ticklish like his dad and if you hold his hands up and tickle his armpits with your chin or mouth he can't stop laughing.

Right now Jack should be in bed, but he woke up 30 minutes after I put him down and now he is 'swimming' around on the floor playing with toys. So cute. He just went out our bedroom door, and got into some sea shells... better go!