Is anyone missing a GPS? I fear my daughter may have swallowed one. She has this uncanny ability to know exactly where we are and were we are going and lets me know, constantly, whether she approves or not. Each morning, taking Corben to school, she lets me know that she'd like to go to the church. When I drive past the turn she points that way crying and yelling, "Church! Church!" Once we drop Corben off I have the choice of turning left or right out of the parking lot. Ella ALWAYS wants me to turn right. Even before she could talk she would point and cry. If I turned left instead she would scream NO GO! NO GO!! I'm not sure what the obsession is with the right turn but if I make it she sits quietly and happily in her seat grinning from ear to ear. Maybe she knows it's the long way home. I let her pick all the turns one morning, out of curiosity, and she took every turn that was opposite of the one that would have taken us home. Heading two towns over, I finally had to turn around and listen to the screams. As soon as we get close to our neighborhood she starts getting upset and letting me know she doesn't want me to go home. (I'm sure that's just because it's boring compared to the big wide world out there.) -- Ryan took her out on her new tricycle the other day. She was happy and content...as long as she was riding AWAY from the house. She wouldn't ride up and down the street because she was afraid that if she passed the house he'd make her come in. She peddled as fast as she could away. So, Ryan took her on a ride through the neighborhood. Each time he tried to turn her towards home, no matter how turned around he'd gotten her, she always knew and would get off her tricycle and refuse to go. He finally had to carry her and the bike home, Ella screaming all the way. It's really amazing to us, how she knows we're going to Daddy's work when I take a certain exit off the highway or how she knows we're going to my mom's despite us taking a different route. I guess she has nothing to do back there in her car seat but pick on Sylvie and learn the roadways all around town. So, if anyone needs directions, I'm sure (as soon as she learns to talk) that Ella will be happy to oblige.
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So awesome isn't it?? I mean, aside from the screaming and not wanting go home. :) How cool that she knows where she is and where you're going. Autumn, my oldest has always been like that. It's fun but it still amazes me every time when she asks if we're headed "such and such a place" and I haven't said a word about it. Or when she says, "look we're almost there, there's the blah blah blah store and then we'll turn..." Now she's to the point where she's figured out street signs and will say, "Oh, We just turned onto Magnolia." I love it!
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