Looking back, 2 years ago...
Nothing jumped out at us then, there were just some odd things. She would write her "name" when doing her "work" at Daycare, but she wrote "MAS" and not Sydney. We thought she was copying her friend Sam's name. He sat across the table from her, and his name plate was upside down from her. She recognized the S in both their names. Made sense, she was just copying what she saw, right?
Then there were very detailed drawings of her day, using multiple colors for all different parts of the pictures. Coloring SO WELL at age 3, in the lines, nice even strokes. Far better than a typical 3 year old. All despite her insistence on using an ulnar grasp on her pencils and crayons. She just couldn't do a tripod grasp no matter how hard we tried to get her to change. But she had excellent control despite her grip.
Oh, and she was often tripping and falling when the group went on walks. Almost everyday I picked her up from daycare, she had fallen and skinned her knees, head, hands. She had Club Feet as an infant. She was casted. We tried the special shoes. Her feet were better, but maybe that is why she tripped so much, they still turned in. Maybe?
And speaking of feet, she ALWAYS put her shoes on the wrong feet. She claimed they "felt better that way." Didn't make a lot of sense, since she had club feet, and you would think having her shoes on the wrong feet would hurt her. But then again, for awhile we put her shoes on backwards to help correct her feet, maybe she just considered it normal?
I don't know. Nothing seemed wrong back then, just cute 3-year-old antics. Looking back, it may have been the precursors to a larger problem...
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