it's funny how you can be the one spending every minute with your baby 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, and be the one to miss a "first".
one of our nightly rituals is to give Gemma a bath. after her bath, i massage her with lotion while Jesse gets ready to dress her.
so the ONE night where i got my mom to do the lotion rub-down because i wanted to get ready to feed her, she rolls over from front to back.
the next morning, while my mom was watching her while jesse and i went to church, she flips over again.
tonight, while i'm doing dishes after supper, she flips over for daddy. i heard him screaming upstairs and i thought something terrible had happened, but she had just rolled over and he was screaming with joy.
i've been putting her on her tummy, watching her like a hawk since i heard she flipped over the first time. but did she flip for me? nope.
then finally, as we were sitting around, watching the Olympics, Gemma rolled over right before my eyes! i was so excited, i picked her up, smothered her with kisses, and told her over and over again how proud i was of her. when i put her down, she rolled over again! and then again a few minutes after when she was back on her belly!
it's incredible. such a simple thing, yet it has such a powerful effect. it seems like yesterday i was in the hospital pushing her out and here she is rolling over... at 2.5 months, at that! i'm so incredibly proud of her.
one of our nightly rituals is to give Gemma a bath. after her bath, i massage her with lotion while Jesse gets ready to dress her.
so the ONE night where i got my mom to do the lotion rub-down because i wanted to get ready to feed her, she rolls over from front to back.
the next morning, while my mom was watching her while jesse and i went to church, she flips over again.
tonight, while i'm doing dishes after supper, she flips over for daddy. i heard him screaming upstairs and i thought something terrible had happened, but she had just rolled over and he was screaming with joy.
i've been putting her on her tummy, watching her like a hawk since i heard she flipped over the first time. but did she flip for me? nope.
then finally, as we were sitting around, watching the Olympics, Gemma rolled over right before my eyes! i was so excited, i picked her up, smothered her with kisses, and told her over and over again how proud i was of her. when i put her down, she rolled over again! and then again a few minutes after when she was back on her belly!
it's incredible. such a simple thing, yet it has such a powerful effect. it seems like yesterday i was in the hospital pushing her out and here she is rolling over... at 2.5 months, at that! i'm so incredibly proud of her.
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