Smile, though your stomach is aching...

I realise that every parent thinks their child is more advanced that the rest, developing more quickly than the books say they are supposed to, whether that's first steps, first words, first post graduate degrees. Well for us, it's all about the smile. See, according to the books babies don't 'really' smile until about 6 or 7 weeks, according to the other mums in our NCT group it can happen after a month... and anything before that is just wind. It doesn't seem fair that something as lovely as a smile on a baby could actually just be a build up of gas in his little stomach and we've been convincing ourselves that he's actually smiling at us, not trying to fart. This little montage of photos is part of my ongoing struggle to capture bubba's 'smiles' on camera. What do you think? Genuine joy or just a pain in the...