Talkative Little Guy

Our little Jack loves to talk. He babbles pretty much all day. He can make most all the vowel sounds, and a lot of consonants. He has even starting babbling in French!

When I went back to work full-time, we hired a bilingual nanny to watch Jack every day. Her name is Amandine, she is a former co-worker of Adam's, and she is wonderful! She hangs out with Jack at our apartment every day. On Mondays and Tuesdays they go to playgroup; the one on Mondays is for French language speakers, just like Amandine. She also reads to him in French. We all swear his cries and babbles are starting to have a French accent!

Adam also tries to speak and sing to Jack in Spanish, and I try my best to throw in a little French and Spanish into our conversations, as well. We can almost see all the little synapses in his brain firing and growing! We, of course, think he's already a genius, but we'll try to give him every advantage we can, French-speaking nanny included!

Other news of note:

• Jack probably weighs about 13 pounds (on our inaccurate bathroom scale)
• He can roll over very easily onto his side from his back
• He can hold his head up very well on his tummy (see below)
• He watches us very intently while we eat. We're pretty sure he'll be ready to try some solids in the next few weeks (the doctor said anytime after five months is okay)
• He is wearing size 3-6 month clothing now; most of it fits him pretty well, but some are still too big, and he is making the transition from size 1 to size 2 diapers.
• He sleeps about four to five hours at a time during the night...which is a huge improvement from when we had to wake him every three hours! (I usually go to sleep the same time he does every night...around 8pm!)
• He is the smiliest, happiest baby we have ever seen. Everyone comments on how social and smiley he is.
• Il est tres mignon!