Life of a yummy baby ... and now there are 2!!!!!

As Morgan is becoming more nimble with his motor skills, he has built enough confidence to handle his own fork and spoon independently at every meal. At around this time (of 21 months) he is pretty good at maneuvering his utensils and tools more efficiently. The spoon doesn't quite always go onto his nose most of the time now and the fork is much better at aiming food on his plate. The other thing we haven't got round to do is to let him eat with a pair of chopsticks! Actually we did once when we had guests over .... and all he did was to treat them like a pair of drumsticks - typical boy!

The other fun thing we've tried to speculate was to see if he was more left or right-handed. We were certain that he was definitely more right-handed from the beginning because he seems to reach out for everything with his right hand. Recently we noticed that he has suddenly taking to using his left-hand alot. So we thought ... he might just decide to be left-handed later on, or even ambidexterous! I read that handedness runs in families and since Lewis and I are both right-handed, it seems normal to assume that Morgan would naturally be like us too. But I also know of friends, who are both right-handed, have children born left-handed. Their case being - there are many left-handers in the extended family. So it really is just what's genetically-dominating I suppose. A lot of people in the past tend to 'correct' this handedness due to social pressures to conform and superstition but I suppose it's alot less so these days. My mother was one of them. I was thought to be born more left-handed but she believed that it was more of an inconvenience than anything and made sure I turned out to be right-handed.

Not that I am certain which hand Morgan would give preference to, I wouldn't mind either way. After all in the family, both his aunties are also different - Julie is left-handed and Ann is ambidexterous (i.e has equal facilities of both hands in writing).