Strong and Strong-willed

Nicholas has always been pretty strong, but he is getting stronger by the day. The positive manifestation of this is that he can lift himself up on his arms now and hold his head up high and steady for a few seconds, as well as flip himself onto his back. The frustrating manifestation is that it is almost impossible to get him to move in ways he does not want to. So when he decides that he must have his hands in a specific place while eating (usually by or on his eyes), that he will not bend in the middle to let us burp him sitting up, or that he won't let us bend his legs to clean in the folds during a diaper change, there is no fighting him. We should have known that a child of ours would be strong willed, but I didn't expect it to manifest itself in the first month.