Today was Justine's turn to go to the Developmental Clinic. The time change has thrown our schedule in disarray, with the kids nowhere ready to go to bed at 8:30, nor at 9 pm for that matter, and, thus, nowhere near ready to get up on time in the morning. Long story short: we were a bit late, which embarrasses me deeply, but such is life, at least during Daylight Savings Time. So we were fashionably late, and oh-so fashionable, as Justine (and Vasco) are into wearing hats these past two days (see picture). Justine was in full super-cute mode, and was eager to shout out the names of all the pictures, colors, shapes and animals before the lady who was testing her could even ask her the questions! I was so proud of her! A few choice answers:
Examiner: "Justine, are you a girl or a boy?"
Justine (grinning under her hat): "Girl!"
Examiner: "When you grow up are you going to be a mommy or a daddy"
Justine (laughing like this one was way too easy): "DADDY!"
Examiner: "When you grow up are you going to be a woman or a man?"
Justine: "No man!!! Wooooman!!!"
This one probably went way over the head of the examiner, but Justine was also given a little bunny figurine to use to put on top of a cup, in a cup, under a cup, behind a cup, etc, to show, I suppose that she could understand a number of prepositions. After enthusiastically doing as asked, she said "Mommy, zayatz!! (Заяц, or bunny in Russian) in reference to an old Russian cartoon that my aunt taped for the kids when we went to Bulgaria in September. The examiner must have thought I was a slight bit cooky for laughing so hard.
I fully expect the report to arrive in the mail with some choice adjective describing her cuteness. All her medical reports do. The recent one from the pulmonary clinic diagnoses Justine as "adorable": I think that is the precise medical term.
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