Mr. Giggles

So, as you can tell, it's been a bit more difficult to find the time to post updates on the blog (it actually took me about 10 minutes to type just this sentence). Anyway, Holden's been doing great so far. He's been developing quite the personality, and responding to us with all kinds of facial expressions and movements. And, while he has rolled over many times before, today was the first day that daddy got to see him roll (and he conked his head on the floor, which really made him mad).

One thing that Holden has mastered in the past couple of weeks is laughing and smiling in response to us (not just your sleep smiling or laughing when he passes gas, but genuine responses to our not-so-shabby attempts at baby talk and high pitched baby sounds). I edited a couple recent moments together in this short video. What a stinker!?


He's been growing, too. According to our super accurate bathroom scale (ok, so maybe not that accurate), he's now about 8.3 pounds. So he's probably about at the average weight of a newborn baby right now, but he's catching up fast.

Holden's impending first Christmas should be lots of fun, and I know we'll have lots of new pictures with family to share ... and it might even be a "white Christmas" this year in St. Louis, which would be great since I'm so jealous of everywhere else getting all the snow (esp. Washington, DC ... snow hogs!).