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Elijah woke up this morning and said, “Today is the day that I’m going to learn how to roll over!”

Steph has been watching him closely for days now. He’s taken to wiggling around a lot on his back, doing a little snake-like move that pivots him in a clockwise direction. I was going to attribute this to the Coriolis effect, but as it turns out that’s supposed to have the opposite impact on rotational dynamics. Anyways, the wiggling has been pretty consistent the past few days, and Steph said, “I just know that at any moment he’s going to roll himself over.”

And so it was, at about 3:27pm I walked upstairs to our bedroom and saw Eli enjoying some “tummy time”. Except, that Steph had not put him on his tummy. In the time that she had laid him down on his back and went into the closet, he had flipped himself over. Very nonchalantly too I might add – as if he’s been doing this for weeks and has been holding out on us. I said, “What sort of monkey business is going on in here?” And Steph looked and said, “WHAH!? He flipped over!”

So we have a roller! He can very easily get himself from his back to his tummy, and he’s quite excited about it. He’s finessed the move now – a tuck of the knees, a grab of the toes, and a roll to the side and it’s done. Getting from his tummy to his back is quite another challenge though. He’s done it a couple times, but more often than not he gets frustrated about it. Which may prove to be a long night for us if he lays in his crib all night rolling from his back to his tummy and getting stuck.

Here is a video of his third time rolling over. We completely missed the first. Didn’t get the camera up in time to catch the second. And this third was only caught because we did a stakeout – he refused to roll while we were filming, so we had to pretend we weren’t in the room so he could concentrate on the move:

If you can’t see the video you can watch it here.

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