I have hands

Nathan and I have been reading the book “Your baby’s first year, week by week”. It is funny how accurate the book is. We read what he should be doing a certain week. More often than not that is exactly what new things we see him do during a particular week. For week 8 there is a section titled “He’s fascinated with his hands”. It talks about how babies this week will examine their hands and other objects by putting them in their mouth and sucking on them. They are realizing their hands are a part of their body, and the other objects are not. The translation of all of this is during week 8 you might end up with a baby who sucks their thumb. As you can see from the pictures that is what little Daniel is learning to do. Hopefully he really won’t and is just exploring. We don’t want him to be like his mother who sucked her thumb for a very long time as a child, and had that bad habit to break.