Smiling!

So, you are officially “social” smiling now. Your eyesight is good enough that you can focus on faces and will make eye contact. Yesterday I watched you while your mom went to a physical therapy appointment. I put you in the baby wrap and took you outside with me to water the flowers. You kept smiling. You love to be outside. Then we came in and had a nap. Lila took these photos.

Afterwards we went with Miles and Lila back to your apartment to the pool. Grace fed you and put you into a onesie. We didn’t stay too long because it was the hottest day of the summer so far and also Miles had a drum lesson we had to get back for. But you were so fun the whole time. I was talking to you and you were smiling and concentrating and trying so hard to speak! You actually did make a few little cooing sounds for the first time! It was so cute!

Oh, also, they said we shouldn’t really be able to determine your eye color, but they always look quite blue to us. And…yesterday while you were watering flowers with me, you looked up towards the bright sun and let out a huge sneeze! That is exactly what your mom did at that age and I knew then with her, as just now with you, that you will have your Grandpa J’s eyes. Almost every time it is bright sun outside, we will walk out and look up and then let out a huge sneeze. So, anyway, time will tell for sure. But I think that was the sign that you will have his eye color.