Eye to eye contact

Every day, our little charges seem to grow more and more aware of their environment. Sophie is good at direct eye contact now and appears to take time on details. She does take the mickey a little, by staring intently at me, then going cross-eyed and drooling. One of us is clearly mentally defective and I fear it’s not Sophie.

Matthew, on the other hand, scans the whole room, not dwelling on anything for long. He's clearly a big picture man.

Aware that newborns see contrasts rather than colours, I drew a big smiley face and planted it in front of both of them today. Sophie, as expected, studied it for a while, looked away, studied it again and spent reasonably long periods focused on it.

Matthew, also as expected, did follow the face for a while when I slowly moved it across his field of vision, but quickly returned to scanning the room for a way to escape the nuthouse he’s found himself in.