Joaquin Rolls Over

Joaquin will be 4 months old next week. Today he rolled over for the first time. I thought he would roll from back to tummy as he has been rolling onto his side for several weeks now. However today when I placed him on his playmat, he pushed himself up into a mini-push. This is the classic cute baby pose.

Then he pushed off a bit with his feet and as his head is so heavy (his head was in the 85% for size at his two month check-up), he rolled right over onto his tummy.
He played for several more hours on his playmat this afternoon but has yet to repeat his new trick.

The other baby news is that he now happily sleeps in a portable crib at the foot of our bed. He loved sleeping in our bed for the first few months. I loved it to. When he was a newborn, he first fell asleep on either Daniel or my chest. In a few weeks, he was sleeping snuggled under our arms like a baby bird. Then I began to roll him over to his own place in the bed after each nightly nursing. By three months, he didn't like to be disturbed in his sleeping by an arm or the head of his parents. So we got him a cute portable crib. In a few months, when he's waking less and the SIDS most dangerous time is over, I'll move him into his own room. I am liking this easy natural sleeping progression. But I realize I am lucky and Joaquin is a sleeper. Plus, after my mom mentioned that perhaps he should go to bed and naps on his own, I have been laying him down after a song wrapped in his blanket. After a few rustlings and yelps, much like my old dog Wiley circling his bed for a snooze, he goes right to sleep.