We have good milestones and bad milestones this week. Good milestone, he's learned to grasp onto and hold things (other than my finger)! Bad milestone, his first trip to urgent care.
For weeks now I've been trying to hand the baby things by placing them in his open hand, and theoretically he was supposed to just magically grab them, someday. Today was that day! He has this adorable soft duck that rattles and he grasped and moved around his duck. He's a quick study and started grasping the USB cable I was using to put pics up online for this blog. This evening he had both hands on his Sophie (the giraffe teething toy) and shoved her in his mouth. Here we go. Baby proofing is coming...we're all doomed.
Mid week when his nails were being cut his cuticle got snipped and there was a tiny drop of blood. No big deal. We soaked it a lot, but he shoves his fingers in his dirty baby mouth so, not surprisingly, it got infected. I took him into the doctor on Friday and we were told to try to avoid antibiotics, if possible, but give him an oral round on Tuesday if it's not better. Then Saturday his eye was wet and gloopy and leaking yellow and green pus. I assumed he'd stuck his infected fingers into his eye. He was extra fussy and had a hard time going down for naps so we went to Urgent Care. Baby's first trip to the ER was pretty uneventful. He fell asleep in the waiting room (FINALLY) and was diagnosed with pink eye. They think we picked it up on Friday at the main clinic. They sent us home with some erythromycin ointment to squirt into his eye (just like when he was born). Taking the baby to the doctor is as unsafe as staying home. While there they weighed him in at 14 lb 4 oz and 25" long. I truly hate the British weight units of stone (because who can multiply by 14 in their head?) but he is now 1 stone!
Over the last weeks Moriarty has learned more singing, cooing, and sound play. This week he directed all this sound play effort into shrieking at the top of his lungs. Happy sounds. Sad sounds. Hungry sounds. Bored sounds. It all comes at decibel level OMG CHILD!!! There's a cute pic of him wearing baby hearing protection while "we" built a shelf (while I used the hammer and driver). Pip and I have joked we need to start wearing our grown up hearing protection so Moriarty doesn't give us hearing loss in our 30s.
I might step back to 2x/month on the updates. He's not making as many dramatic leaps as often. If something really cool happens I'll definitely update! Otherwise, catch you in a couple weeks.