The last couple of days (since Ellie's started feeling like her old self), we've noticed that our daughter has done some things that kids just do. It's pretty cool and a sign that her world is continuing to expand. Here's a few 'for instances':
Yesterday I caught her trying to flush her slinky down the toilet and laughing hysterically.
She has started following Reagan around the house hollering, "Sit! Sit! Sit!" (poor dog!). She's lived with him for 15 months, but seems to just now be realizing that he's something she can interact with. "Shake!" is another one of her commands.
She has discovered the awesome effect of applied writing instruments and Nathan found her walking around Sunday with a capless permanent marker pronouncing it, "Black!" Thankfully she didn't color anything (that we know of yet).
Finally, this last example is related to the previous one. Though Ellie has shown a great interest in coloring and writing lately, we've never seen her do it outside of her safe Crayola tablet (thank you, Nonna!) or on some otherwise provided paper or surface...until Saturday night when I found a reference form for a student's masters of social work application shall we say, thoroughly "endorsed" by Ellie. I had left it on the kitchen table, which apparently isn't a safe place to leave things anymore.
On the topic of writing, I was working at my desk Saturday night while Ellie played with chalk. I heard her say, "A!" and saw her point to her work. Sure enough, she had drawn the two legs of the letter A, minus the horizontal cross stroke. I've only shown her a couple of times how to make the letters in her name, but she never even tried to emulate in front of me during those instances.
One of her therapists told us that a good sign would be when we saw Ellie noticing things in the abstract. Yesterday at lunch, she was eating pretzels and pronounced, "D!". Sure enough, the broken pretzel she held in her hand looked like the letter "D." We thought that was pretty cool.
Okay! I promise photos next time.
4 comments:
Yay for Ellie! That's all great news -- even the Slinky flushing and the reference "endorsing." She's a typical kid... Yay!
That's so awesome! God is working and I'm so happy for you all! :-)
thanks for the new update of ellie love of the pitures of ellie on the blog love aunt hannah
So glad you have a typical child. Kathi wrote on things with ball point pen and lipstick!! We love so much hearing of all Ellie's accomplishments!!!
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