Griffin has always been a bit ticklish, like he will grin if we run our fingers over his stomach during a diaper change, but it has never been extreme. Tonight, however, Sarah discovered his real ticklish spots: at the edges of his neck and shoulders! He was laughing like we’ve never heard.

This morning Griffin managed his first unassisted roll from front to back. He has made it onto his side before, and has made it with some help, but this time he was on his tummy in the middle of Grandma and Grandpa Stocco’s bed and managed to flip onto his back with no parental (or grandparental) guidance! Tummy time, for Griffin, often sounds a bit like torture. He grunts and groans, huffs and puffs, turns red in the face, but hasn’t had the coordination or muscle-strength to crawl or roll. At this point he can’t repeat the feat reliably, but with a bit more practice he’ll be falling off the furniture in no time.

Sarah and Noemi were at the dinner table. I was in the comfy chair. Griffin was hovering somewhere above the comfy chair as we played the superman (superbaby?) game. He was smiling, which he does a lot these days, but then his grin expanded and he let out a loud, robust giggle. Noemi and Sarah both recognized it, without seeing his face. (Which is new… in the past we’ve seen him kinda-laugh, but if you weren’t looking at him you couldn’t tell if it was a laugh or some sort of squeak or maybe even the beginning of a cry.) So, for the record: Griffin’s first laugh, Monday, June 8, 2009, after dinner.