More Firsts

This past Wednesday, September 24th, Benjamin began pointing. This is not something we've been specifically working on with him so we were a bit surprised to see his cute little index finger gingerly stretched out, with a slight hook to it. But by the end of the day he was straight-fingered pointing, no doubt about it!

His pincer grasp is also emerging. More on his right hand. He's still doing mostly the raking hand on the left side. But on the right side the pincer comes out more and more. Once he gets it down pat we will introduce finger foods!

He also interacted with the telephone like a telephone on Wednesday. Grandmommy Kim was singing "Nabiya" which he loves. But usually he smiles and looks around the room for her while he bats at the phone with his hand. But this time he held the phone to his ear and smiled, looking like he totally got that Grandmommy was INSIDE the phone.

And since we got back from his cousin's birthday party in Charlotte on Sunday Benjamin has been out of sorts. He cried most of Monday which he has never done before. He snorted with congestion all that night which was horrible. Tuesday he began sneezing a lot with clear "ko mul" or nasal drip. And more snorting through the night. And by Wednesday he had a fever that got up to 103.3. Scary. After stripping him bare naked and getting some infant Tylenol in him his temp came down to a more manageable 101.8. Thursday he still had some fever but was able to play most of the day and I'm up now writing, waiting for the time to give him his next dose of medicine. Ah, it's 3:30 am now. It's time. Poor Bug.