Caroline the Observant
Nov. 6th, 2007 08:40 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
puppetmakerCaroline is one of those kids who watched the world and then tucks things away in her brain for later. She also has a steel-trap mind when you promise her something. I can tell her that it is too late in the day to paint but we set up the paints after breakfast and the next day after breakfast and getting dressed she will remind me what I said the night before.
She also has good recall of events that she either observed or participated in. I couldn't find one of the remotes to the DVD player. I asked Caroline if she knew where it was. She hopped off the couch, went to my worktable, and brought it back to me. I remember that I had placed it there after programming the player two days previous.
She owns a million little plastic animals of various species. I can't keep them all straight but if one is missing she knows it and wants to find it. She had out the dogs of which there are 12. She counted them and had only 11 and then came to me asking if I had seen the beagle. I found it under a couch but I was rather impressed that she knew exactly which dog was missing.
We have been working on letters and numbers. She can count to 25 and is sorting out the alphabet. The little fink knows the alphabet song but the only way I know that she knows it is that I heard her very quietly singing it under her breath. We have been sitting down with books that go through the alphabet and finding all the objects that begin is various letters on the page. She has also been working on writing various letters out. She has sorted out that the letters on the page allow me to read her a story. Now I think she is trying to figure out how it works so she can do it too.
She loves helping. We clean up things together. She helped me sort of the comics for Halloween by putting them in the piles I asked her to. She helped Ariel bake cupcakes for a school bake sale last night. She helps me with loading and unloading the dishwasher. She wants to be known as the best helper ever. She is also great at chasing the cats into the dining room so we can lock them up.
Soon she will be five and next year she will be going to school but right now I get to enjoy my time with my daughter and watch the world through her observant eyes.
I am grateful for all the things that Caroline has learned.
She also has good recall of events that she either observed or participated in. I couldn't find one of the remotes to the DVD player. I asked Caroline if she knew where it was. She hopped off the couch, went to my worktable, and brought it back to me. I remember that I had placed it there after programming the player two days previous.
She owns a million little plastic animals of various species. I can't keep them all straight but if one is missing she knows it and wants to find it. She had out the dogs of which there are 12. She counted them and had only 11 and then came to me asking if I had seen the beagle. I found it under a couch but I was rather impressed that she knew exactly which dog was missing.
We have been working on letters and numbers. She can count to 25 and is sorting out the alphabet. The little fink knows the alphabet song but the only way I know that she knows it is that I heard her very quietly singing it under her breath. We have been sitting down with books that go through the alphabet and finding all the objects that begin is various letters on the page. She has also been working on writing various letters out. She has sorted out that the letters on the page allow me to read her a story. Now I think she is trying to figure out how it works so she can do it too.
She loves helping. We clean up things together. She helped me sort of the comics for Halloween by putting them in the piles I asked her to. She helped Ariel bake cupcakes for a school bake sale last night. She helps me with loading and unloading the dishwasher. She wants to be known as the best helper ever. She is also great at chasing the cats into the dining room so we can lock them up.
Soon she will be five and next year she will be going to school but right now I get to enjoy my time with my daughter and watch the world through her observant eyes.
I am grateful for all the things that Caroline has learned.
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