Learning.

Every day, Gracie shows us she is learning. Today, I asked her if she wanted a bottle and she shook her head "yes". After I took a shower, she brought me the hair dryer because she watches me use it everyday! We play a game where I point it in her direction and she runs away shrieking with her giggle laugh!. If she doesn't have a nap, she crashes by 7pm. Tonight she was mad because it was raining AGAIN and she couldn't go out and swing AGAIN. So I brought out the headset for her Listening Program and she gave me a huge smile!!!
She is giving me more and more of those huge smiles!
She is using cognitive thinking because , though I told her No she couldn't go out, she went and got her shoes to try and persuade me because she knows I always make her put on her shoes before we go out!!! She learned that because there were several times when she didn't like that I made her wait until we put her shoes on until we went out. I see the little brain working!
It sometimes bugs me when I see younger kids who are on track developmentally only because she wasn't given that chance but we are going to do everything we can to make up for lost time!