What does the above picture tells you?

Yes, Darius is using his left hand more. For a while now, he would swing it up, trying to grab something in the air or wave it around. His right hand will be lying limply by his side.

Will he belong to the 8% of the population who are left-handers? Interestingly, from this article,

Hand orientation is developed in unborn children, most commonly determined by observing which hand is predominantly licked or held close to the mouth.

Well, Darius likes to put his right hand into his mouth so maybe he won’t be. If he’s a left-hander, he will be inconvenienced in life due to many stuff built for right handers as what I’m experiencing now. I managed though but sometimes it’s pretty frustrating when you are knocking chopsticks with a right-hander and trying to write on a table that is on the left side of a chair.

Lately, his favourite action is to swing both of his hands up, moving them up and down slightly in the air, opening and closing his fingers and pouting his mouth.

We are often tickled by this as he look as if he is concentrating on ‘fishing’ something out of the air or ‘kite-flying’.  Probably because we made him grip loops on the playmat and he has become more aware of gripping. It is only during these times that his right hand swings up.  Though I wouldn’t force him to use his right, we will still try to make him work on his right hand more from now on.

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