Other babies milestones

Whenever a baby younger than the Animalia reaches a milestone and jubilant parents text, call, email or otherwise communicate it, I can't help but recall the Animalia's milestones. The lovely and squeezable baby Lito prompted this little stroll down memory lane by rolling over last night. He's very excellent this baby Lito and him rolling over made me do a little squeee! in my head.

I'm not sure the actual date when the Animalia first rolled over-- it was pre-mianimalia.blogspot.com, so I'll have to check the nearly blank baby book. I think it's at my mom's.

Anyhow, the first time the Animalia rolled over, she was on the little mat of her play gym at Nana's house. She was smiling at her toys and then she reached over, kind of twisted her legs around each other, and she was over. She was on her tummy. It was effortless, like she'd been doing it the whole time, like it was no big deal. Then she didn't do it again for a few weeks. When she started rolling over again, it was back and forth and forth and back and again, no big deal. The funny thing is that even though I don't remember the date, even though it was more than a year ago, I remember almost every little detail about that time. It was amazing and it all continues to be amazing, watching her learn to crawl, then walk, listening to her chatter turn slowly into words, watching her first smile turn, a little later, into full on laughter. It makes me feel all squishy inside.

These babies, they're amazing.