Holding his own hands

Every now and then I see something that reminds me of how very upset this boy's development has been. Although he's making strides (slowly) in many areas, it was almost shocking to me to run across him doing this a few days ago:

See what he's doing? He's holding his own hands. This is something that babies may start doing in their third month - Gloria's done this and moved on to bigger and better things.

Krassimir does *other* things that are significant developmentally related to this - he can cross "mid-line" to reach for things (still harder with his left, but it's something he did not do at all with his left when he came home.) He can pass objects from one hand to the other (though he still does this primarily from the left hand to the right hand, and will only go the other way with heavy intervention. This, too, is something that he's learned to do since coming home.)

But this is the first time I remember ever seeing him deliberately holding onto his own hands, and (the photo doesn't capture), playing with his own hands, handling them, moving them, holding them VERY tightly.

Ahh, tiny boy, what you have missed!