Rolling Over

Having Ava has really shown us what a miracle new life truly is.  Each new experience that she has is amazing to me and I love watching her grow and learn.  I never thought that I would be so excited to watch someone roll over, but I found myself so proud of Ava the first time that she was able to roll and it just shows how much she is growing.

I learned as a parent that there are two different types of rolling over, stomach to back and back to stomach.  Ava rolled over for the first time from her stomach to back when she was two months old, and it would be another month until she did it again.  It would take another month for her to learn how to roll over from her stomach to her back, which is much more difficult, but after a couple of weeks of being on the verge of rolling over she finally figured it out and acted like it was no big deal.  On January 30th, Trav and I left Ava on her play mat while we finished getting ready for work, and when we came back she was hanging out on her tummy.  Between mine and Trav's reaction, you would have thought that she just said her first word.  After she did her first roll, there was no stopping her and that night we found that she had  done at least four rolls in a row in the two minutes that we were out of the room and realized that there is no leaving her unattended on her changing table anymore.
Although she started off rolling from her stomach to her back, once she started rolling from her back to her stomach she seemed to forget how to roll to her back and she gets frustrated if she is on her stomach too long.  Now a month later, she has started to roll over in her sleep. She will wake up upset that she is on her stomach and the one time that we went up to roll her back, she was back on her stomach a minute later so we are now leaving her alone when she does this so that she can learn to roll herself back over.