This week has seen a lot of advancements on Anya’s
part.
Amy just informed me that her teacher at Little Gym thinks
Anya is too advanced for her class and needs to move up. (The unfortunate
symptom being that she is acting out and not listening.)
She has started answering the phone when Grandma, Andrea, or
I call. She’s also started texting back
when I text. It is particularly cool seeing her text “Anya”, “Mom”, “Dad”, and
even “volcano” back at me. (Don’t get too
excited, she also sends, “daerajdaejae” more often than not). Again, a disaster on one level and pretty astounding
on another.
Most impressive to me personally is her sudden curiosity
about everything. Amy informed me that Anya had “big questions this morning
about where life comes from and evolution.”
The other day in the car she asked where the sun came from, and the
earth, and the sky? Where did the bugs
come from? Where did plants come
from?
I answer as simply and accurately as I can and she continues
to ask clarifying questions rather than getting instantly annoyed or bored. It’s
really exciting for me to have these types of conversations with her.
Monday night her and I worked on a 50 piece floor puzzle of
the planets. I gave her hints, encouraged her and talked her through lots of
it, but I didn’t help at all. She finished the whole thing and was really
proud. She and I then talked about how asteroids
make impact craters on the moon, and how Mercury and Venus are very hot. Then she READ the names of all the planets (she
needed help on Uranus).
It is so cool to see her actually reading and writing and
discussing really hard to grasp concepts with me. Now if only I could convince her that I’m not
“ruining her life” by asking her to wash her hands before dinner…
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