Eva is becoming more aware of time now, asking me to show her where on the clock the big and little hands will point when it’s time for us to go somewhere or a friend to come over. I put up a classroom calendar on the play room door, and Eva figured out pretty quickly how to keep track of the days until birthdays or holidays. She’s very observant and curious, and you can tell from her questions that she’s figuring things out. When I told her she needed to dress her naked Cinderella Barbie instead of letting her catch cold on the floor, Eva said that she needed a swimsuit to go swimming in. I took a black permanent marker and painted a bathing suit on the doll for her, and Eva was so excited she asked me to do it for all of them. When she got a new one a few weeks later, the first order of business was, “Mommy, Belle needs a bathing suit, too.”
Eva loves to draw things that she’s interested in, and not a day goes by without a stack of new drawings appearing on my desk. She has a very active imagination now and will make up elaborate scenarios to pretend. A big Magic School Bus fan, Eva and Amanda were pretending a few days ago that they shrank and went into Miss Frizzle’s mouth during a trip to the dentist, to learn all about teeth. To my knowledge, there’s no such episode of the Magic School Bus, but it was a very creative idea!
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