It’s amazing how quickly babies learn and develop. A couple of days ago, Mads realized that hands were good for more than holding in fists constantly. He’s learning to put his fingers in his mouth, and spends hours thwacking himself in the face in attempts to improve his coordination.

He’s gotten pretty good at aiming, he just doesn’t have the muscle control to keep his hands in place very long yet. It’s wild, though – I can remember learning how to ride a bicycle one-handed, and how to do a round house kick, and how to raise an eyebrow (I still can only raise the right one, the left one is just uncooperative), but I can’t remember learning to use my limbs. It’s cool to watch Maddox practice and practice and then to see it just kind of click.

Tags: learning