She seems to find something daily to amaze us with; yesterday, though we were astounded at her action. On our way to dinner last night, I handed her a little clementine to carry with her in the car, so that she could have that for dessert. As we got in the car, I noticed that in addition to the clementine she had a plastic cup in her hands. Daddy strapped her in the car seat and off we went to dinner. Along the ride, it was unusually quiet in the back seat--but I didn't think much of it until we were nearing our destination. I turned around thinking maybe Kateli had fallen asleep during our short ride to the restaurant--but I was surprised at what I saw. NOPE she had NOT fallen asleep, instead she had managed to peel the clementine and was on the last little slice of that tiny orange, that was supposed to be dessert. She looked at me, smiled and handed me the plastic cup. What I found inside was the peel of the clementine, in bits and pieces, the exact same way that mommy peels it for her; you would have thought, that I had peeled it and handed it to her! After examining all the pieces of rind in the cup, I figured out that she had initiated the peel by taking a bite off the rind--there was one little piece that looked wet and chewed on. All the subsequent pieces though, she managed to take off with her little fingers, as those were not wet at all. And so it was, Kateli had spoiled her dinner (a little bit, because she still did have some food at the restaurant)--and mommy learned not to underestimate her almost 20month old's talents and abilities!
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