When Emrick was not quite two weeks old, he flashed his first smile — he was sleeping. For the next several weeks, almost every snooze he took was punctuated with a handful of wide, toothless grins. Maybe he was dreaming, or maybe it was just a reflex of the facial muscles. I don’t know. But even though he obviously wasn’t smiling at me, it was impossible for me not to smile back. It was like yawning when you see someone else yawn. Except cute. Then when he was about six and a half weeks old, I saw his first waking smile. I’m not sure, but it seemed to be directed at the plastic rattle I was waving (obnoxiously) in front of his face. Then less than a week later, he was smiling at people. Ever since then, he’s been smiling at us every day. Big, beautiful, vocalization-enhanced smiles. Some days he’s very generous with them, and others he is a little stingy. But even on his stingy days, I can still get my fix by watching for those sleepy smiles he still offers when he nods off in my arms.
Tonight, when he fell asleep at his bottle of breast milk, he started smiling like crazy. Smiles here, smiles there. He was giving quite a show. So I asked Marcus to get the video camera. Most of his performance was done by that point, but we still managed to catch a grin. Try not to smile at the monitor! You can’t do it!
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You were right! Impossible! What a great way to start the day with sweet baby smiles! Thank you for posting that! Clark and I both loved it although I think he is still stinging from the swipe from the last post. HAHA! I loved it!
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Kelly,
Swipe?! Bah! That story is completely true (except for the part about when it happened and all ;))! I just needed to lighten the mood of that post somehow, and that joke practically wrote itself!
I was smiling reading your post before I even got to the video. He does have the most infectious smile ever. We love it.
Such a cute smile!! Your right though its hard not to smile when you watch the precious video
I am going to test the boys with this tonight. They are always trying to show me Youtube videos which claim you can’t watch without laughing or at least smiling. I have yet to even smirk. But I am betting they wont make it through this. A-freaking-dorable!
Just thought I’d give an update on MY boys. Yes, they smiled ear to ear when they saw YOUR boy smile. It was really sweet. It just proves that smiling is contageous. We should all do it a lot more often.
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That’s my Emrick, capable of softening even a moody teenager!