That’s how he rolls

Ryan, to put it mildly, is no fan of tummy time. He’s normally a wonderfully mellow baby, but put him on his belly and he becomes a surly beast.

Because of this, we’ve been slacking about subjecting him to it, and worrying that Ryan’s baby physique was starting to fall behind. He seemed to be meeting or exceeding all his other milestones, but tummy time? Not so much. He barely lifted his head off the ground.

But for some reason, his development suddenly took a quantum leap. He went from hovering over the blanket to arching his back and looking up. I don’t know if it’s from the way he pushes off of us when we’re burping him. Maybe he thinks that tummy time is when he’s lying against our tummies.

At any rate, Ryan was showing definite progress. See if you can tell the difference between his “good” and “bad” tummy time:

Then yesterday Gina called me to tell me the baby was pulling a fast one.

“Ryan found a new way to get out of tummy time.”

“What did he do now?”

“Well he was pulling himself up really well, and then he rolled over.”

I heard Ryan crow in the background. He was pleased as punch with himself.