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Our little girl is quite the girly girl. She is so into playing dress up, playing mommy to her babies, cooking for us in her kitchen (or our kitchen), getting her fingernails and toenails painted and wearing "pretties" in her hair or things on her head. I am really glad that she is such a good mommy to her babies. I hope that is an indication of the type of big-sister she'll be...especially since we are going to have another baby. I am still early in my pregnancy, just 10 weeks. We are having lots of doctor's visits and going to the Perinatal Assessment Center at U of M. Carys loves to show off the ultrasound that I had at 7 weeks. She likes to even show the baby picture to her babies. Overall I'm doing pretty well. I have days of feeling really yucky but then days of feeling great.
Our little Einstein had to have testing at the U of M developmental clinic as part of her being a preemie. She was tested for 2 hours putting puzzles together, building blocks, coloring, identifying pictures, climbing stairs, pretend play, etc. She scored really well. In one of the major areas, I think it included cognitive ability and problem solving, she scored in the 99.9% for children her age. That means only .1% of children do better. The doctor administering the test even tested Carys on things that 4 year-olds should do and Carys could do some of them. She really impressed us. In all the other areas she was in the 88 to 98%. Over the weekend Carys was coloring on her dry erase board and we had asked her to draw a face. She did. You can see it in the photo. I'm sure it was a fluke, but nonetheless, she did.