Guy Smiley

Josh is now almost three months old and he is so smiley. If you even just think about looking his way, his eyes light up and he smiles with his whole face. I noticed from the very first days of his life that he'd get these sneaky little smiles while he was sleeping. Of course when babies are that little people just discount those sneaky little smiles as gas or something else - but never are those little ones given credit for a real smile. I could tell with, "the guy" as we call him, that his smiles were genuine. They were while he was asleep or in a milk coma, but it was not gas, it was happy. When he was around four or five weeks old I got the first awake smiles. Talking to him on his changing table he'd look right at me and his little lips would curl into a goofy grin. Over the next weeks I noticed that I'd be feeding him and all of a sudden find myself laughing at something Lucy was doing and the big goof would look up at me and smile like he thought it was funny too. Milk would drool out of the sides of his mouth while he'd look like he was going to crack up. Now he smiles when you talk to him or make silly sounds. Lucy likes Josh to sit with her on the couch and while she chatters away or watches TV. Josh loves it too, he just looks over at his big sister and smiles. She is oblivious to his adoration. It is so nice and reassuring to see his smiles. He's just kind of a happy-go-lucky guy. He smiles like he's on the verge of laughter. Lucy was never that smiley as a little baby. Her poor little body was usually in too much upheaval from refulx that she was usually to pissed or uncomfortable to smile. It's nice to see a baby's gums from a big grin rather than a constant cry!