1) His new nanny - we'll call her Maya - started work this week, and lo, it turns out she is a miracle worker. On her very first day, she and my mother managed to distract Fuzzy long enough for him to consume half an ounce of milk from a bottle. Granted, this whole process took almost an hour, required two grown women, two musical toys, an exercise ball, and a plethora of distracting tinkling, squeaking, and rattling objects - but still! Definite progress from no bottle at all.
2) Fuzz also showed some motor development progression, as he flipped from his back to his stomach in a fit of pique. This was during a middle-of-the-night feeding and diaper changing, so I was the only witness, and so far he hasn't repeated this trick for anyone else. I'm pretty certain it happened though, and wasn't just a sleepless hallucination on my part.
3) Finally, the baby has finally discovered his feet. He's certainly seen them before, and even stared for lengthy periods of time, but this week he figured out that those things at the bottom of his body can be fun toys. He now grabs them when laying down and purposefully splashes with them in the tub. This discovery is a mixed blessing for us adults - on the one hand, he has a good object of distraction when no toys are available. On the other hand, diaper changing is significantly harder now, as he resembles nothing so much as rolly-polly bug who refuses to straighten out.
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