Cameron Lo

Leave it to Cameron to start self-feeding “early”—well, earlier than big brother who by my record didn’t start until he was 13 months old. But Cameron’s the exact opposite of Darren—Cameron puts practically everything into his mouth whereas Darren almost never (with a few scary exceptions on his first Hawaii trip while on the beach, putting sand, pebbles, and twigs in his mouth! Our then nanny was completely spacing out, but fortunately I caught Darren in the act and extracted all foreign, inedible objects from his mouth.) Not only is this self-feeding milestone exciting in and of itself, but, while not caught on this video, Cameron also uses his left hand to self-feed—his left thumb was diagnosed at 6 months to be a congenital clasped thumb, but with the help of a thumb splint which he wears when he sleeps, his left thumb is almost as good as his normal right thumb now!