Face Time

When we met with Peter's developmental follow-up team at Sunnybrook, they gave us two homework assignments. One was Tummy Time, to which you've been introduced, dear reader, in another post. The second mission was what we call Face Time, which consists of making sustained eye contact with the Peanut. According to the follow-up team, eye contact is a critical skill that is essential to parent-infant attachment and forms the basis for social development and learning. The trick to Face Time is catching Peter during one of his Magic Baby Moments, during which he is suddenly calm, alert, bright, beautiful, and generally a pleasant little guy. During these moments, Peter will now look at us like we're people, and sometimes grace us with great big smiles, like this one: