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Nov. 23rd, 2007 12:07 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
janetlinDespite my constant assertions that Morgan is absolutely brilliant, I have for a while been a bit concerned about her development. I remember from my Child Development class that most children draw "tadpole people" (a head directly connected to legs and perhaps arms) by the age of two, and Morgan has never drawn anything vaguely resembling _anything_. The art papers she brings home from school are full of just scribbles, though they are at least very precise and individual scribbles (which means the fine motor skill part of the process is working just fine).
Until the other day when she randomly came up with this:
People! Discernible people! With heads and torsos (one even has a neck) and arms and legs with distinct hands and feet at the ends of them! Such a _huge_ leap, and so quickly, from what she had been doing. Oh, and the circles inside the heads are cheeks. A rather odd facial feature to focus on - most kids start with a nose or eyes and a smile - but maybe that's due to how much we all kiss her cheeks. Perhaps that's therefore the most important part of the face, for her.
The largish figure in the middle, with arms, is me. The bigger figure to the left of that one is Popa (my maternal grandfather). The two in the top right are Grandpa (my dad, with the neck) and her, and the one in the lower right is Uncle Rew. I'm not sure why those particular ones are those particular people, but when I asked her again a few days after she drew this, those identities had not changed. Oh, and also somewhere on the left side is Rusty, Grandpa's golden retriever. I'll have to take her word for that one, though, 'cause I can't find him.
Until the other day when she randomly came up with this:
People! Discernible people! With heads and torsos (one even has a neck) and arms and legs with distinct hands and feet at the ends of them! Such a _huge_ leap, and so quickly, from what she had been doing. Oh, and the circles inside the heads are cheeks. A rather odd facial feature to focus on - most kids start with a nose or eyes and a smile - but maybe that's due to how much we all kiss her cheeks. Perhaps that's therefore the most important part of the face, for her.
The largish figure in the middle, with arms, is me. The bigger figure to the left of that one is Popa (my maternal grandfather). The two in the top right are Grandpa (my dad, with the neck) and her, and the one in the lower right is Uncle Rew. I'm not sure why those particular ones are those particular people, but when I asked her again a few days after she drew this, those identities had not changed. Oh, and also somewhere on the left side is Rusty, Grandpa's golden retriever. I'll have to take her word for that one, though, 'cause I can't find him.
