Could it be - a REAL smile???

Yes, this is the 3rd post in 2 days... but I just had to get on here now to report that I THINK I witnessed Alex's 1st smiles today. Not gas ones, but REAL, feel good smiles! Jay isn't convinced b/c everytime I called him in to see, Alex stopped. I was also alittle hesitant to label his 1st smile. Here's how it all happened:

This morning ater Jay fed him his bottle, Alex was in such a good mood. Really alert and curious, looking at us and all around the bedroom. When Jay left the room I was talking to Alex, and we were staring into each other's eyes when it happened the 1st time - a smile! Or was it? I wasn't quite sure, but then it happened again. Really? Could this be a REAL smile? I was still hesitant to say for sure. I mean, it is a milestone, an important moment in time when your child smiles for the 1st time. I don't wanna get it wrong! But I THINK he smiled this morning.

Then a little later in the morning, again after a feeding, I was holding him, staring into his big beautiful blue eyes and making faces at him. I was opening my mouth real wide and saying "hi!" then smiling at him. Then it happened again - Alex opened his mouth like me and then made a smile - one with his mouth opened a bit. I repeated what I was doing to see if he'd do it again, and he did! So I called Jay in the room and told him, but he still didn't believe me b/c when I tried to get Alex to do it again, he of course would not. That little stinker!

So was today the day our son first smiled? Am I imagining it, or trying to make another gas smile into something more? Or was this really a few precious moments between a Mommy and her son, meant only for the two of us to share?