Reaching

I know I just recently posted about how Jude was starting to appreciate his toys. He would look at them and occasionally accidentally grab them when his hands were moving about. It was also not uncommon for me to lay them on his chest and he'd basically "hug" them and try to get them in his mouth.


Well, this morning while I was laying around playing with him, I had one of his Lamaze toys out and he was cooing at it like crazy and moving around. I had read before that the best time to work on motor skills was during his "active awake" time (calm awake is best for reading to him, etc) so I thought I'd give it a whirl.

I put his little fire fly toy with in reaching distance and shook it (it had bells and rattles and crinkle wings, etc) to get his attention. Almost immediately he started to reach for it. I was so proud of him!!! Now, I'll add that he does not have very refined hand-eye-coordination obviously, so his movements were very jerky and it took him a couple of passes to actually get a grip on it, but once he got it, he pulled it towards him and put it in his mouth. We did it over and over again and he just smiled through the whole thing.

I called to let Ryan know - hopefully he'll do it for his daddy when he gets home.