Picturing Lucas

People have been asking me if I'm taking lots of pictures of Lucas. The answer is yes, but they are not the careful and leisurely portraits I imagined I would be taking. Almost all of them are taken indoors under terrible lighting conditions. And most of the time Lucas is asleep in the pictures because if he's awake it's hard for me take pictures and hold him at the same time.

Of course, the sleeping pictures are adorable.

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But I'm also starting to manage to take a few pictures where his eyes are open and he's looking around. He's definitely starting to look around more purposefully than he did in the first couple of weeks, when his eyes would move from side to side, but didn't seem to be directed at anything. They just moved around until something would catch his attention, and it seemed like bright lights or contrasting darks and lights were especially interesting to him. He was (and still is) just enthralled by the pattern on the ceiling in the living room created by the (faux) wooden beams and the ceiling lights.

          

Now he looks towards things and I have the real sense that when his eyes are on me that he's actually looking at me. I'm also fully confident that when he's looks at my chest, he is knows what he's looking at and knows what he wants! (Of course, that doesn't mean that he always opens his eyes when I try to feed him. When he looks I can more easily guide him on, but sometimes when he's really hungry he scrunches up his whole face so that his eyes are closed shut and he flails around and it's a much more difficult endeavor.)

So now that he's really looking at things, I think it's time we finally get around to hanging up a mobile. Unfortunately, most of the mobiles I've seen have a bunch of plush animals that hang with their feet pointing down, so that if you are looking at the mobile from below all you see are feet. I really don't understand this! Well, I did buy a mobile at Ikea that I love, with colorful fish that hang with their faces and their giant eyes facing down. But unfortunately it didn't come with a mobile arm so we can't attach it to the crib. In the last picture on the right (above), you can see that I placed the fish on a blanket and Lucas was clearly entranced by them. Since then I've taped the mobile up on the crib railing but it's really not high enough to have him lie underneath it. ... Oh, look! I just found a mobile arm. Well, okay, that problem is solved now!

Comments

[ceiling lights]

Great shot!!! Its a piece of gem...Hes so cute. I wonder what ceiling light you use at home. You got a perfect shot on in combined with the bright light.

[jkirlin]

To him you are 2 boobs and one big massive black eye.

[Jenny P]

So Cute!!!