Hahaha! I just love this picture more than I can say. E FINALLY decided that it was okay to go on the potty. And we had a success. I think this next week we could finally accomplish the potty-training-venture. After she conquered, I told her we wanted a picture to celebrate...her idea was to pose by the frog (which we keep forgetting to deliver) and to make this face. Oh man. This girl CRACKS me up.
This girl takes things at her own pace. She always has, and I hope she has the confidence to keep that up. She has always refused to do things just because people tell her to. The girl literally sat in the middle of the floor and watched people for the first 9 months of life, didn't try to move at all. Then suddenly one day she just up and crawled. At 10 months she was walking/running like a champ. None of this getting up, falling down, stuff. She just stood up when she was ready and did it.
In nursery, she literally sat in the corner and watched all the other kids for the first 6 months. Her teachers thought she hated nursery; on the contrary...she LOVED it. She talked about it non-stop. And a few months later, she joined in with the activities when she was ready.
She takes her time in every new situation. When we go to a new park, she'll stay pretty close to me doing only the things she's seen at other parks until the last 5 minutes we're there or so. She spends the whole time observing other kids and she does it when she's good and ready. I knew potty training would be the same. She would wait until she knew she could do it, and then she'd just do it. My pediatrician was SUPER CONCERNED that E wasn't going potty when we went for her 3 year old check up, I wasn't, I told her it's just how this girl is wired.
With all great strengths come weaknesses. I can see that as she grows older this waiting to do things could hold her back in certain situations. Enter yet another reason I'm so grateful she and B will only be a year apart in school. They have completely different strengths in this area. B dives headfirst into all situations without thinking about a thing. He is persistent as all get out and he doesn't care if he falls 1,000 times before he figures it out. I think the two of them will push each other and encourage the best parts of their personalities to be manifest. Hopefully B will show E that it's okay to mess up, that you can always try again, that you don't have to be perfect all the time. Hopefully E will show B that you don't need to do things just because others want you to, that it's good to calculate a situation before jumping in, that you can be true to who you are. Mostly I hope that they can learn to love their strengths and work to develop things they wish they were better at. I hope they will understand how wonderful their differences are, how extraordinary their talents are.
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