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Daily Danny

The camera missed the smile, but still caught a nice expression.

smiling

Danny has been smiling for a while now. (He really seemed to have
figured out the concept sometime in his 6th week...) I've posted
pictures of him smiling, but it can still be pretty challenging to
catch a smile at its best in the camera... His smiles are really best
in person! :-)

Lately, tho, we've noticed some refinement in his smiles. At first
they were all or nothing - a huge, open-mouthed Kermit-style smile or
no smile at all. Now he's got levels of smiles. He's still got that
great big smile - often accompanied by a giggle, but now he also has a
sly little grin. It's not quite an "I'm up to something" grin, but
it's getting there. It's really cute (of course!) and it kinda
reminds me of his Great-Grandma Gene.

I've mostly shared this blog with family and close friends so far, so
many of you knew Brian's Grandma Hall, or Grandma Gene, as I liked to
call her. For those of you who did not know Grandma Gene, she was a
really wonderful lady - and yes, she often had a mischievous "I'm up
to something" kind of grin on her face. ( I think that mischievous and
ornery were two of her favorite moods. :-) ) Unfortunately, she passed
away just a few weeks after Daniel was born. She didn't get to meet
her great grandson in person, but I'm sure she watches over him.

I was disappointed that Daniel will never get to take lessons in
mischief from his Great-Grandma Gene, but now that I've seen that
little grin, I know that there's a little bit of her in him. I bet
she's teaching him lessons somehow that I just can't see. I hope one
of the lessons she teaches him is how to enjoy life as much as she did.

I miss you, Grandma Gene.

Love,
Kathy

Not quite awake yet...

Sitting in the chair-

- all by myself!
Daniel seemed to enjoy the new perspective on the room. It didn't last
too long - by the time I left, just a few minutes later, he had
already gotten tired of sitting up, and was doing tummy time with a
boppy. But even so, it was good practice for sitting on his own!

Daily danny

Also check out the photo links on the blog homepage ( should be
somewhere to the right of this post) - I set up another new album (4
months +) and linked it on the blog page.

Decisions, decisions...

Which toy to chew on first?