She required constant holding, was a poor sleeper, was easily overstimulated, had sensory issues with certain qualities of sound, etc. She was usually early on her fine motor and cognitive milestones, but average to slow on her gross motor
This is precisely how I'd describe my DD, now 3Y10M. She continues to sleep much lesser than her agemates, her sensory sensitivity has moved from when she cried incessantly to the sound of sneezing at 4 months, to now - where she smells even a slightest flavor in kitchen, says a staircase in a building smelt like "swimming pool" (they were cleaning with chlorinated water), closes ears when we turn on the blender but then asks Alexa (Amazon Echo) to play music at the insanely loud volume 10.
Fast forward to her second birthday, I was sitting home alone with her in my lap, drawing pictures for her, trying to teach her how to hold the stylus correctly, when she pointed to a scribble I'd made and said, "Two!". Well, there was a two of sorts in there, so on a whim I drew a one and she said, "One!" She then proceeded to reveal fluency in number and letter recognition
So similar! DD could identify all alphabets by 14 months, and was able to speak all alphabets in sequence and number 1-20 in sequence by 17 months. She was speaking complete compound sentences by 21 months.
"The house is a rectangle!" (it is) or "My glass is a cylinder!" or "My pea is a sphere!" I
DD is still fond of shapes. She has been so, since the time she started using a Shape sorter toy at 13 months and managed to sort most shapes correctly. A few months ago, she fell down and scraped her knee and was terribly upset that the scrape was a straight line and not a triangle. When I asked her how she fell down, she replied "Because I lost my center of gravity".
What prompted my post is a nightmare she had recently of she and I trapped in a fire "getting burned"...I hate the thought of her being so profoundly afraid so young.
Another constant challenge. Earlier, around 3 years, she went through a fire-obsession stage. She constantly kept asking us questions like "what happens if we put paint on fire?" "what happens if we stand next to fire" "what happens if we poo on fire?" "what happens if we eat fire" "What happens if we touch the fire on the stove?" and went on to "what happens if we eat asteroid?" "what happens if the wax comes out of candle?" "what happens if we cut the sun?" She was so intensely curious that it was challenging to give her a logically satisfying answer and at the same time reiterate that "testing" by trying to touch fire is not a good idea.
