Sophia IS doing such a better job with new people, and adapting to new experiences, but she was still a little hesitant, and demonstrated some "avoidance behaviors". She did her "temper tantrum" (laying on the floor in a "I can't do it" attitude) a couple times. I personally thought she should be used to cognitive testing at this point but ya know, she's 22 months old! She also acted a little tired even though she had a great nap. Must be exhausting :-)
The testing went well in my opinion, but when I got back the report, I was little surprised to see things like "attention problems" and "difficulty staying on task"- again, I personally chalk up a lot of to her AGE... but of course these are snap shots and they DID, at testing time, comment how smart she is... I have a very hard time imagining her on the autism spectrum, or having any cognitive problems, because of her brain power- multiple people have told me that she is quite smart- so I'm not just biased, I promise!
Lately, though, I have started noticing small differences between her and other chilren. Not that it matters, and obviously I'm talking about more than just the glaringly obvious Not Walking part.
I also have a hard time talking about the potty with her. She seems eager and has the vocabulary down pat, but it is my personal issues that I'm coping with - both losing my little baby (wahhh) and secondly, Do I want to be carrying a toddler to the potty 50 times a day? Of course she has her little potty, but she seems scared of the giant frog eating her peepee LOL!!! I am *trying* to let her do more things on her own.... so she will scoot to where she needs to be, or we walk by me holding her hands. She's supposed to be bearing weight on both hips so she reaches for a lot more things, or bends down, or shifts her weight, or whatever it is that she's doing much more often (before I would help her, get it for her... etc). If you say "crawl" she automatically switches to her hands and knees crawl (aka "creep") and then almost as a joke starts scooting at the end like "haha this is faster see ya later mom".
Dressing her has become increasingly difficult..... as you can imagine we are outside a lot now in the nice weather and it pains me to imagine her legs all scraped up.. so she's in jeans if we are on the black top or playground, and sneakers, which get dragged to SHREDS unfortunately but what can ya do...
Right now we are on vacation in Maine :-) She's doing a great job but I can't help but worry about when my uncle and cousins get here. She's going to have a tough time acclimating to that, and I know my youngest cousin will want to be all over her, something Sophia just doesn't tolerate. She's in BabyLegs
and just a diaper here because I'm so worried she'll get splinters or gravel embedded in her skin or some other such malady LOL.
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