In her own time

I sit and watch my baby play. She is 19 months going on 2 years. She is a tornado. But there are a few things she needs to wrap up before moving on. She would like to figure out what the remote control is all about. She wants to run in the grass and eat more ice cream. I have a list too, it includes Evy's hands. Do not get me wrong. She can use both hand equally well. She can pick up a speck of fluff, inspect it, and then eat it with each. Right now she is scooping 3 inch disks out of her toy CD player. She is using both hands to scoop. One disk with her right, one disk with her left.

And yet I worry. I worry because she is not using both hands to scoop out one disk. Evy is smart enough to discover that one hand stabilizing the CD player and one hand scooping is a faster way to get the disks. She is smart enough and yet she does not do this. Why? She lacks the coordination to control the process. Even her scoops are thick-handed. My poor little one. I fear when we hit these hurdles that she will not clear them. Yet she always does. And so I will wait. And worry a little.