Evan is slowly able to understand cause/effect now. I've been showing him a toy guitar where three objects, when touched, makes snippets of music/song. I would hold his hands to touch these objects so he could see/hear the resulting sounds. It's clear that he can recognize that pushing a button leads to some noise. So I put the guitar close to him to see if he would try to make some sounds by touching the objects. Although it often looks like he's hitting the guitar at random, I do see at times that he 'tried' to touch some buttons in order to recreate the noises that daddy showed him earlier. It's still mostly reflex at this point, instead of him 'wanting' to make the music. But i think that's coming pretty soon.
I've seen him recently scratch at the wall next to the diaper changing pad when I'm changing him. He seems to like the scratching sound/sensation of his fingers on the wall as he lays on the pad. If I pause what I'm doing, he continues to scratch at the wall, apparently amusing himself of the sensation. It's very interesting to observe all these things that we as adults take completely for granted. It's all new to the baby. I do wonder why human babies take so much longer to develop cognitive and motor skills, compared to other mammals. If we're so much more 'evolved' as a species, what advantage does developing such skills so slowly have? It certainly doesn't help our survival rate - to take almost a year to begin to walk and even longer to run. Is this slow progression of physical skills to the benefit of the baby or the adults that must take care of the baby, I wonder....
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