This was supposed to be an entry about the gripping reflex in babies. It is a relict from our phylogeny when we had to hold on tight to the fur of the mother in order not to fall off of her when things would get rough. The fur is long gone and the new function of the reflex is to render parents helpless in adoration of baby cuteness.
So much for that. Now I have to make this an Awesome Outfits entry though. The pictured suit wasn't a gift from anybody, we bought it ourselves last June at The Green Onion on Smith Street in Brooklyn. We love it and miss our old neighborhood every time we see it on little Karl.
P.S.: Don't think this baby is sleeping ALL the time.
1/16/08
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I love these primordial reflexes. There's also this ancient panic mode called moro reflex, which is really funny (unfortunately at the baby's expense, since he releases a lot of adrenaline and other alertness chemicals with the funny moves, which supposedly ain't pleasant, luckily we read that early enough so we stopped scaring him on purpose, harhar....). One thing makes me wonder though. How do creationsts raise their children? Don't they notice those rather obvious links to pre-human times? Or how do they explain away all those monkey moves? Unless of course the gripping reflex is baby's soul holding on to the divine spark lost in the process of birth and the moro reflex is just keeping the devil away. Maybe that's just like it is. Ain't it.
When your old neighborhood sees this picture of Karl, it says to itself, "I miss you, too."
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