Take that Stephen Hawking!

Eli seems to be developing faster than I can keep up these days. It seems like just a few days ago he was still flailing his arms around wildly like a muppet on Sesame Street, and now he is able to grab anything he wants with both hands and manipulate it. Most of the time he just pulls whatever he is holding to his mouth so he can suck on it, but he is capable doing much more like shaking it, pulling it over his head, or passing it between his hands.

He has also started reaching out to scratch things as a form of studying them, further proving that our boy is a GENIUS. We'll just be chillin' on the couch and for some reason he will become focused on one of the cushions or my shirt or whatever is close to him. He'll extend a single finger to gently scratch at the fabric and will take a few seconds to study and absorb it all. He also does this with the monkeys lining his crib bumper (the pad that lines the inside of his crib walls) when he is not tired enough to fall asleep for his nap. Genius, I tell you. Genius.