Conrad is happy sitting in his ‘play nest’ (the inflated ring) for longer periods of time now. I saw him grasping toys with both hands for the first time today (Wednesday), turning them over and studying them intently. You can tell that he’s not quite got the hand-eye coordination yet: a couple of times he was intensely looking at something straight ahead but only managed to grab something further over to the side and, seemingly frustrated, kept droping it and trying again.
He also spotted his feet for the first time (as far as I am aware) today and grabbed them – not by reaching them himself but when I lifted his bottom off the nappy changing mat by grabbing his legs by the ankles, so his feet were bove his face. No doubt, as he gets more agile, he’ll grab them plenty of times again.
I have kept forgetting to mention it, but although his eyes are still blue – a dark, lmost grey shade – Conrad’s left eye seems to have a very small, rusty-coloured patch in the iris just bove the pupil. At times I’ve not been sure if it’s not just been my hair or something else reflecting in his eye, a trick of the light, but I will keep looking.
Gabriella