Roll on

Sam first figured out, sort of, how to roll more than a month ago. We encouraged him to do it more than the two times that he did, but he didn't seem interested, and one of the 937 books that Meredith has read on child rearing said it was OK -- if he was't interested you don't have to worry about it.

But, at his four-month checkup, our doctor advised that we go ahead and work on it. And a couple of days later:

Here's Sam on the floor. Here's Sam, deciding he wants to check out his copy of Baby's Ivanhoe.
And swing the arm around ...

And you have it.
He seems to have it down pretty well -- roll, grab toy, puke on toy, scream. Rolling is now his favorite thing to do, followed by eating and screaming. And he really loves to scream.

The only problem is that we now have to worry about this: