Daryl has been trying to use his hands since being born. And recently he has discovered some of their major functions.Firstly, he can finally grab his toys with his fingers. We have been trying to teach him how to use his hands and fingers, and we often pick up some of his many free toys (courtesy of his crazy crazy godmothers) and shake them in front of him like an idiot, hoping that he could pick up one of them and shake it like crazy. But we failed on both counts. First, he is still having difficulties picking up his toys, and we have to put one in his hands and wrap his fingers around it, so that he could hold it properly. Second, he is not crazy at all, and although he can only raise his toys, he hasn't figured out how to shake them yet. Perhaps he doesn't want to act like an idiot like we do.
Secondly, he can finally suck his hands. The other day, when all of us were asleep, we were awakened by the "jeep" noise (the kind of noise you should never produce when eating or drinking) in our room. When we woke up trying to find out what it was, we saw Daryl sucking his both hands like crazy. We were amazed by how happy he looked to be, and how noisily he was sucking. And we felt like an idiot watching him suck his hands happily in the middle of the night.And thirdly, through learning how to use his hands, he found out a very important secret: We are in fact two happy idiots in front of him.
