New Milestone, less sleep

At 11 weeks and 1 day Gavin reached a new milestone, rolling over!  However..... Gavin also does not like being on his belly.  He DETESTS belly time and I have not been as good as I should be in forcing him to do it.  My excuse is that I barely see him during the week, only for a couple of hours each night and I would much rather be snuggling him instead of making him cry.  Although, lately I have been better about it but sadly only because I saw a picture of a friend's baby who is only a couple weeks older than Gavin propped up on his elbows and "reading".  I knew then that I had to suck it up and listen to the screams for at least a few minutes every night for his own best interests.

One of the happier belly moments

Well apparently it worked because Thursday morning about 6:30 I heard him start crying.  I thought it a little strange since he normally doesn't get up until 7 and then he is either asleep still or just laying quietly in his bed looking around.  Well when I walked in there he was on his belly, all swaddled up.  He had done this once before when he was two weeks old but I consider that a fluke since it took him nine more weeks to do it again.  So last night I didn't swaddle him because him being swaddled, which prevents him from using his arms, and being on his stomach makes me nervous.  He went down fine and slept really good, which I was very surprised about, I thought we would get more of a fight from him about not being swaddled, since that is usually a major requirement for him to sleep.  Well at 3:50 this morning he started screeching, Clay runs in there and he is on his belly again flailing around like a little fish out of water.  So he flips him over and puts his pacifier back in and all returns to normal until 5, and then again at 5:30 and then again at 5:45, I finally told Clay we had to just let him cry it out or we would be up and down every night with him because he would never learn just to deal with being on his belly or to flip himself back over.  We are super proud of our little boy and his new achievement but truly hope that he learns to love being on his belly or picks up the rolling back over skill VERY quickly!!

happy boy getting ready to go learn about Jesus!

Livin the life!