Ana was back today...
Jun. 9th, 2006 12:22 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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And she appears to have shot up half a foot. Seriously, she's grown.
And she told me a rather amusing story about her plane ride home:
Ana: I was on the plane, and I was crying *pretends to cry for a second*, and Nanen say "You just tired, you know" and I say *pretends to cry while quoting herself* "NO I'M NOT!!!"
Me: Oh... But you know-
Ana: Ackshully, I was tired. I was very sleepy.
*giggles* That girl has the most amazing insight sometimes.
Like the time at the zoo with the screaming woman....
There was a group of people from some institution or group home, I don't know, people and their aides (or people and their charges, however you want to view this). We were eating our lunch, and they were leaving, and one of them didn't want to leave. So she sat down and screamed, and eventually I heard enough to gather that her feet hurt and she didn't want to talk to the bus on aching feet. I wasn't about to pick up and move, much though I do tend to dislike noise (the rest of the zoo was filled with a dozen and a half school groups, and they were just as loud and far more likely to randomly throw stuff or bang into us), so I just ate my lunch and explained to Ana that people don't generally like being stared at. Her solution, alas, was to keep looking back and forth, but at least it's a start.
And eventually, she came to the conclusion that "I think she screaming because she don't like that lady", which was probably the case. (At least at the time. Not knowing anything about any of these people, it's quite possible that That Lady is a perfectly nice individual and they usually get along great. Who knows? Who really cares? Point is, Ana's the most brilliant kid ever because I say so :P)
And she told me a rather amusing story about her plane ride home:
Ana: I was on the plane, and I was crying *pretends to cry for a second*, and Nanen say "You just tired, you know" and I say *pretends to cry while quoting herself* "NO I'M NOT!!!"
Me: Oh... But you know-
Ana: Ackshully, I was tired. I was very sleepy.
*giggles* That girl has the most amazing insight sometimes.
Like the time at the zoo with the screaming woman....
There was a group of people from some institution or group home, I don't know, people and their aides (or people and their charges, however you want to view this). We were eating our lunch, and they were leaving, and one of them didn't want to leave. So she sat down and screamed, and eventually I heard enough to gather that her feet hurt and she didn't want to talk to the bus on aching feet. I wasn't about to pick up and move, much though I do tend to dislike noise (the rest of the zoo was filled with a dozen and a half school groups, and they were just as loud and far more likely to randomly throw stuff or bang into us), so I just ate my lunch and explained to Ana that people don't generally like being stared at. Her solution, alas, was to keep looking back and forth, but at least it's a start.
And eventually, she came to the conclusion that "I think she screaming because she don't like that lady", which was probably the case. (At least at the time. Not knowing anything about any of these people, it's quite possible that That Lady is a perfectly nice individual and they usually get along great. Who knows? Who really cares? Point is, Ana's the most brilliant kid ever because I say so :P)
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Date: 2006-06-09 05:32 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-06-10 04:01 am (UTC)It may be, it may not be. That day she was experimenting with guessing people's reasons for things - the sheep was "sad" because she lost her cracker. Then she was sad because she had lost her friends (all the other sheep were inside their little hut). A boy was happy because the chickens ate from his hand. That sort of thing.
It's not quite typical of her normal behaviour (though I anticipate more of this sort of thing in the future), and I'm not that up on three year olds yet - I know a lot about two year olds, and a lot about four or five year olds, but three...? So I don't know how normal it is yet.
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Date: 2006-06-09 05:32 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-06-10 04:01 am (UTC)It may be, it may not be. That day she was experimenting with guessing people's reasons for things - the sheep was "sad" because she lost her cracker. Then she was sad because she had lost her friends (all the other sheep were inside their little hut). A boy was happy because the chickens ate from his hand. That sort of thing.
It's not quite typical of her normal behaviour (though I anticipate more of this sort of thing in the future), and I'm not that up on three year olds yet - I know a lot about two year olds, and a lot about four or five year olds, but three...? So I don't know how normal it is yet.