Sam’s getting a lot of hand control. He can grasp the rattle if you touch the backs of his fingers with it. Before, you had to spread his fingers open and wedge the rattle in. It always made me think of those movies where the dead person is clutching a coin or a clue in their rigor-mortised hand and the detective has to pry the fingers open. But this morning I took this weird black elastic-Lego-bell contraption that looks like a molecular model and put it on Sam’s stomach. The next thing I knew he was banging himself euphorically in the face. It’s also National Sam Lamott Neck Control Day.
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