madelyn's first report card

a 2 year old progress report for madelyn.all 1s - "can do this" - for large/small motor and language/communication. two 2s - "i'm getting better":
- "shares and cooperates with other children - still working on sharing:)"
-"recognizes name in written form - knows hers starts with an m"

at least there are no 3s - "i need more experience with this". of course i took it more as a failure on my part. how could i not have taught her to recognize her own name?! and you know that i came home and started trying to get her to spell her name and read it when i wrote it. and, yes, i know that i am overreacting. and i am not really upset about it.

here are a few other stories:

- madelyn has had a stopped up nose and blowing it a lot. when she needs to blow it she parks a finger in a nostril. she isn't picking/digging, but just holding a finger in it. the other night madelyn was using blowing her nose as a stall tactic. she went and got her step-stool to reach her tissue and i went to see what she was doing. she happily greeted me with "look! i found a pink one!" yep, she had made her nose bleed and just thought that it was a new kind of booger. at least she wasn't freaked out by the blood.

- madelyn likes to play hide and seek with daddy. the funny part is that she doesn't hide. she goes to hide, but then she jumps out and yells as soon as daddy stops counting. and then when she looks for daddy she looks in the most ridiculous places, like in mason's exersaucer or under the couch pillows.

love.