Rowan also recently started clicking his tongue. If you do it back to him, he smiles and returns the click. Cute? Cute.
Having seen Fiona interact with more demonstrative kids many times, I knew this to be true. She does not lead. She definitely can be grabby, but typically she falls to pieces when another kid takes her toy or pushes her. She is getting better at verbalizing her feelings and shaking it off when someone wrongs her ("No. That's not nice." [Remember my post about how I hurt Fiona's feelings a lot? No doubt she's practicing on me.]) But generally she does not handle injustice well.
At the same time, she has made friends with some of the girls in her class, and while she never wants to leave the house in the morning, by the time we reach school she is bounding down the hallway, ready to hang her name tag on the door.
Fiona is academically in step with or even beyond her peers -- and, being a July baby, she's almost a full year younger than some of them. She knows her letters, numbers, rhyming sounds. She's starting to grasp sequencing, correctly holds a pencil, can draw a straight line, can cut in a straight line, do a 24-piece puzzle (with some coaching). Mrs. Watson said that Fiona has a remarkable attention span (which for this age is over 10 minutes) and loves to do projects. Here are two neat ones that she did, first in November and again in March. You can really see the difference:
And here, she wrote out her name for me:
Now we're looking into ice skating lessons. And fortunately she still enjoys swim class.