What Isaac did this week

We are trying to show Isaac a lot of things that he didn't seem to be able to do yet - perhaps because of the lack of stimulation at the hospital. Anyway, at the beginning of the week, I was concerned that even though Isaac is sucking on his hands and fingures a lot, he doesn't seem to look at his hands at all. So we started trying to put his little fists in the line of his eyesight and after a day or two, he started looking at his fists! In fact, I see him moving his fist and looking at the shadows his fist made on the bed next to his head.

He is still not reaching out that much or grabbing anything at all so we are now trying to encourage him to do that more.

Isaac can also definitely turn from lying on his back to his side. Jong said he also saw Isaac going from his side to his tummy today but I didn't see it happening myself. He didn't do it again so I want to see it before proclaiming that Isaac knows how to turn over by himself.

In any case, the photos I took for his passport pictures may not work according to the photo shop I went to print them out so I took some more. Its amazing how much his face has filled out in the span of about 10 days.

This was taken on Oct 14, 2006:
This was taken on Oct 24, 2006:
Here is a pretty silly video of me and our helper Remy trying to get Isaac to smile for the camera. We got a couple of small smiles but that was it. He really does smile a lot now but I just can't to seem to get it on video!



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