he is reaching!

Elijah turned four months on April 11, and things started happening fast! It's like he turned a corner or something. All of a sudden he seems more like a person, he studies faces with great attention, he doesn't get upset as much when we put him on his tummy, and he is reaching out and grabbing things! Every day it seems like more and more lights are turning on in his little head. OK, he's been grabbing things before (my hair for example), but it was always things that happened to be under his hand. Now (in the last two days) he purposefully reaches out and grabs little toys that we hang over him. He has a Mr. Giraffe and a Mr. Lion. We have a feeling that neither of them will keep their legs for very long :-).

Sometimes we give him a toy to hold, and he sticks out his arm and stares at it. We think he doesn't realize that the toy is not a part of his arm, but he does know that something is different.

a morning exchange

"Elijah, how did you sleep?"
"Goo!"