We have rollover!

Quinn rolled over by himself for the first time today! We have been putting him on a blanket on the floor periodically and helping him roll over to get him used to the concept. Today Bec put him down and he rolled over with almost no help. So she teed him up again (he can only go front-to-back) and he did it again, this time with clearly no help whatsoever! He still needs a little push to get from back-to-front but I don't think that one will be long. He looked surprised the first time he did it, but then looked pleased as punch. Once we started cheering him on he got really into it, hardly waiting at all to flip once put on his stomach.

All the exertion wore him out though. He was a bear the rest of the day. He was a complete zombie tonight before bedtime. When I think about it though it's not much wonder. When I first started working full time and I was learning so much every single day, I was completely exhausted too. And the occasions where I've been immersed in speaking French (or trying to) I felt like my head was going to explode by the time the end of the day rolled around. So we'll cut the little guy some slack, put up with a little understandable crankiness, and start a whole new day tomorrow.

We aborted our camping plans in order to preserve our newfound and hard-won sleep progress. Now is just not a good time to take him to a new setting in a new sleeping environment, especially trying to get him to go to sleep in a tent at 730pm on the longest day of the year. We'll try camping in September maybe. It's important to get the right mix of exposure to new things and constancy, and we're just now establishing what that constancy *is*. I think there's a Life Lesson in that - and fortunately we didn't have to endure a wailing baby in a campground to learn it. Either that or we just chickened out :)