Everyone always says that there's no better feeling than when you baby looks you in the eye and smiles. Well, they're right! Daniel has been smiling in his sleep for a while, and last week we started to see more of the awake quick smiles that seem more like nervous twitches than actual emotion. But this week the smiles are picking up ... they aren't consistent, but more and more we can "make him" smile by doing silly things, or tickling him, or whatever. I know it will become even more exciting in the next few weeks as he figures out that he can make grown-ups do just about anything for a smile :) But already the few times he's locked eyes with me and bust out into a grin have melted my heart. His reciprocation of happiness is so incredibly rewarding - especially after a fussy hour, or a very messy diaper. (And speaking of diapers ... the shades of green coming out of my son are absolutely impressive. Who knew teal could smell so bad?!)
I know that as Daniel develops his "social smile" my photography habit is going to fly out of control - it's already pretty insane (I have already taken well over 1,000 pictures of him). Kind of sad that Daniel is already used to the sound of the shutter, and how Mommy's face looks with a big ole camera stuck to the front of it.
But we realized this week that we have almost zero pictures of all 3 of us! So we asked a friend take some family pictures - our first ever. Daniel behaved himself, and the portraits actually came out pretty good! The picture in this blog is one of those shots - our happy little trio.
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