Flashback: Why are all these hands coming at me?

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“I’m feeling shy.”

Austen sometimes struggles with feeling caution and uncomfortable when she first enters a situation. Even when at a party at a friend’s house, you see her standing around quietly for the first ten minutes before she starts partying like her wild self.

Her tendency to need a warmup period and to start slow causes her to cling to the people she’s familiar with. She gravitates towards the friends she’s known since she was 6 months old. Her preschool teacher insists that she is friendly with all the kids, but Mommy worries when she seems flustered upon first entering the crowded classroom. She always looks for Jack, who’s her oldest friend in the class.

Imagination and Fiction

Austen has an amazing ability to recall storylines and retell them (albeit leaving things out). She is so imaginative, constantly talking to imaginary people, sings made-up songs, talking in her own silly language, laughing at noises and pranks. Our favorite inside joke: “How do you spell TV?” The creative side of her keeps blossoming.

Often fantasy and reality are blurred. At a birthday party she got incredibly upset when a magician pretended to cut Gage in half with large plastic scissors. She cried and yelled at him about “hurting her baby.” The guests were thoroughly amused but Austen took it all very seriously.

Throwing things

Gage’s throwing has gotten out of hand. He tosses his bottle, his pacifier, and his food in anger. He’s very strong and can throw heavy things like phones and remotes. No more laughing when he does it.