Rolling Over

Well, these past few weeks have been very entertaining.  Nicholas now knows how to roll over from his back to his stomach.  He seems to like to do it a lot now.  Every time he wakes up, he’ll usually roll over.  Just picture me sitting on the bed watching television and suddenly you see a head peaking out of the crib.  His neck muscles are extremely strong which allows him to look up when he’s on his stomach.  He’s starting to learn how to crawl.  He can maybe crawl a few inches per minute but he’s making progress.  We have started putting him into his walker now and he can move a little bit in there with his feet.  An interesting thing about him is that he loves to stare at the big fish tank that we have.  This morning, Michael placed him in his walker and he saw the tank.  Michael said that he stared at it for over 15 minutes.  I have also noticed that he likes to do that.  Two mornings ago, when he woke up at 5 am, I took him out to the living room and he just sat there in my lap staring at the fish tank.  He looked extremely content and barely moved around.  We have also bought him a lot of toys to play with now.  He has this interesting habit.  He has this one toy that I’m not sure if he likes it or hates it.  Why do I say this?  Because he looks so happy with it, but then the next moment, he gets so upset and frustrated by it.  Let me explain this more clearly.  It’s a spinning wheel with various rattles and gadgets on it.  It also has a suction cub on it so we stick it to his walker.  First he’ll be so amazed with it and plays with it.  Then he’ll try to stick the various rattles and gadgets into his mouth. Sometimes he succeeds with putting half of it in his mouth and sometimes he totally misses.  But then, after that, he’ll all the suddenly explode into frustration.  He’ll starting crying and develop a look of extreme anger.  He’ll just do that for about 5 seconds or so and will go back playing with the toy as if nothing happened.  Then after a while, he will repeat the same cycle again.  I am really not sure I can say that he's not enjoying the toy because most of the time he is, but when I think about that look he makes when he gets frustrated, it makes me think otherwise.  I mean, the look on his face is  really cute but also mean at the same time.  It really looks like he’s really to do something extremely violent because he makes some very violent moves at the same time.