So here's my second part of my reflection on Benjamin from over the last 15 weeks. As I said previously, he seems to be a pretty chilled-out, happy baby. He's pretty easy-going and doesn't really cry that much (for now!). When he was a newborn he very rarely cried, only really grunted and grizzled.
Benjamin started smiling at about 5-6 weeks and it was absolutely delightful. He smiles all the time now and makes funny noises when he does "excited smiles". I really love it when he looks at Jack and smiles. Over the last couple of weeks he's started to giggle, too. When I'm undressing him for his bath I tickle him under the chin, which prompts a very cute little giggle. It's so nice when you start to see signs of their interacting with you.
I can't remember when exactly, but maybe at about 3 months, he started to make baby noises. His main noise was the squeal, and it would often get very loud and particularly high-pitched! I suspected that the more tired he became, the noisier he became. He's now doing more "talking", noises like, "oo", "a-oo" and "ha-oo". It's so nice to hear these sounds, especially when he's directing these at me, like he's really talking to me. He can actually be quite noisy with his chatting. I don't remember Jack being this chatty, but he could have been.
Benjamin's also started to use his hands. He's frequently got them in his mouth, sucking on his hands or fingers. He's also working out how to grab things on his playmat. Not sure whether this is accidental or not.
A couple of weeks ago he rolled from his front to back. He was having some good ol' rudey nudey time after his bath where I put him on his tummy in my parents' lounge room and when I came back, he was on his back, looking rather shocked. Of course, he hasn't done it since and has shown no desire to, either.
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