Smiles!

After many weeks of anticipating and longing for it, we think Nathan smiled for the first time last night!! He's done tons of windy smiles, but we're pretty sure this was his first proper one. Babies are supposed to be smiling by 6 weeks. When he didn't smile at 6 weeks, or 7, or 8, I had to constantly remind myself to add 4 weeks to that milestone as he was 4 weeks early. He is now 9.5 weeks, so this smile comes bang on time.

It was such a joy to see him smile. Till now he has seemed to only experience pain when he is awake, so the advent of smiles assures me that joy, pleasure and contentment are on the way.

Plus it's just so fabulous to see him respond to us. I was particularly pleased that it happened when G was there, so that he could share in that wonderful experience.

Yay for smiles!!