According To You

We had our Early Intervention meeting this week. Three grueling hours of evals, including a cognitive eval that was 45 minutes for each child. I swear my shoulders needed to be surgically removed from my ears by the time we walked out of Jersey Shore Medical Center. The results: we are normal. We have to go back in six months to follow up with the speech and physical therapists, but for the most part we are just your average 2-year-olds. Never would I have thought that I would love the word average so much. It is funny how much they (Nori and Charlie)know. I am hyper aware of the things I purposefully teach them, and those things shine through, but what is more amazing are all the things they know that I have no idea where they learned them from. Of course I know that children are sponges and they pick up everything, but it is really shocking to see in practice, to see their environment played out on their own personal stage. They see everything. So they may be "average" according to The Bayler Scale, but accoring to the world scale, they are pretty extraordinary.