State of the Stella :: Picture of Amy writing her name

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Stella's father is visiting us for a couple of weeks, and he invited us to McDonald's today for lunch.

Half-way through her burger, Stella started feeling unwell. She said she wasn't sure whether it was just her overactive imagination or whether it was really an allergic reaction, but she said she wanted to take a taxi home rather than wait for a bus, so I called one for her.

She went outside with Peter (her father) to wait for it, and I stayed inside with Amy, who wanted to play for a while. (She couldn't come with us anyway, since we didn't have a car seat for her and most taxis don't have one, either.)

I later heard from Peter that she vacillated between going home and lying down and going to the hospital and having a doctor look over her, but eventually opted for the latter.

At the hospital, they decided to keep her for observation at least until tomorrow.

When Amy and I visited her this evening (after a parents' meeting at the kindergarten), she was still not feeling too well, with her circulation being down, like the last time, but it didn't seem to be serious.

I still don't know whether it was imagination or a real reaction, though I heard that the doctors had seen a slight swelling in her throat this time. Understandably, Stella's rather wary of eating out at all now.

We expect her to be discharged tomorrow, though.

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And here's a picture of Amy's name (click to see the photo page, where you can also see larger versions):

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Indeed!

I was pretty excited when she called me over to tell me she had "drawn an A", since her fine motor skills aren't that great and I'd never seen her write any letter on her own before, and indeed there was a pretty decent A.

(Poor Amy is now at the stage where her aesthetic sense has developed more quickly than her fine motor skills, so that she realises that what she can draw is fairly far from what she wants to draw -- previously, she'd give things her best attempt and would be satisfied, but now she's occasionally frustrated that "can't draw proper faces", etc.)

Then she decided to go on and write an M and a Y, which I saw her draw (well, I didn't catch most of the M until it was finished).

It was interesting to see how she drew them, since they didn't follow how we wrote them but seemed to be an attempt to reproduce the finished version instead: the M, I think, was three vertical lines topped off by a little horizontal one (she's best at vertical lines for some reason, though she can't always control the length).

And the Y was the vertical line in the middle, starting from the junction point; then the top right arm, starting from there; and then the top left arm, also starting from the junction.

Which obviously makes it easier to ensure that all three lines meet, even though we usually don't make strokes when writing letters that start going upwards.

But hey! It's the results that count!