Maniacal Days

Wednesday, April 26, 2006

Developmentally Advanced

That's my girl!! Hunker down folks, this is gonna be a long one...

My cousin Drea (I know she has a myspace webpage, but I'm not sure what it is, or I'd link her) is going to college for her Early Childhood Education degree. Which I'm kind of jealous about, cause that is what I originally went to school for before I decided that partying was more fun, and then started working, and then had my company pay for me to finish college, and they only wanted to pay for business, so I ended up going for Business Management. And now I just LOVE being in the corporate world, no really I LOVE IT!!! NOT!

But Anyhoodle.......she had to do a presentation yesterday in which she observed a baby's development. So she chose Allie. She did her homework, went to my mom's house to observe her, came to my house to observe her....she even babysat! Lucky me! This all went on for a couple of months. At one point she had to do an experiment where she made a box and enclosed a few different toys for Allie. She handed her the box, and then wrote down what happened.

The box was very cool. It had things pasted all over it that were interesting to touch. The cover had a picture of her on it, and the inside of the cover had a picture of all of us.

I wasn't in love with the picture of me, but that't to be expected I think all pictures of me are horrible and need to be burned.

In the box was a bunch of little toys.

Of course the loudest one, the tambourine, was her favorite. Once we got home with our little box-o-fun, she was all over it. Discovering every toy inside as well as the stuff all glued to the outside.

In the very beginning, however, when Drea first gave her the box and was studying what she was goin to do with it, my little narcissist spend 5 minutes just looking at the picture of herself. Then opening the box up and looked at the OTHER picture of herself. Looking at the picture and then smiling at my mother and my cousin like "SEE!! Aren't I cute!!" Not sure where she came from, cause if it was a picture of me, I WOULD HAVE ripped the picture off the box and tore it up. But I'm also not as cute as her. LOL

Wait...there's more! So a couple of days ago she had to do her final presentation on Althea.

She was armed with a very cool time line with all these pictures (all of which she collected from this website), as well as the real thing! Nothing brown-noses an Early Childhood Education teacher like an adorable child! And they were off. She brought Allie in and she was a social little butterfly. She smiled at everyone and let all the students hold her and showed them all her tricks. Yes I teach her tricks....what? you don't teach your kid tricks?

Anyway, the teacher was completely blown away by her. Said she was developmentally advanced! Way ahead of the mark! Said her prediction is she will be walking by 9 1/2 months old. *BEAMING SMILE*

....................... um wait, what now? WALKING? WHEN? *counts on fingers* that's only 3 months away! oh.my.god.

But anyway....Developmentally advanced! Is that not what every mother wants to hear or what?!?! Means your actually doing this correctly! So here's the kicker.....when my cousin says this, my mom (hi mom, and don't get offended) says "Thanks! I guess all the stuff we do is working!"

oh. i. see. Well, I guess SOMEONE is doing something right.

Posted by Jenn :: 11:37 AM :: # 23 comments