wondering if each character in every book has two moms, young women's olympic soccer, hide- and-seek with people or stuffed animals or leftover eggs from easter, discovering the physical ailments of every doll and animal in the house (this area is anne's speciality), asking questions about what it was like when she was a baby, learning how to dress and undress herself, and defying logic on a regular basis.
we are in the midst of looking at preschools, which is causing quite the anxious stir in my brain because there are so many great ones in the neighborhood, but they are all so markedly different. a dual language program? a small, home-based waldorfey place? a preschool run by a woman i know is an exceptional person and teacher, but whose preschool only has a parking lot and no grass or garden? i've crossed montessori off the list, but only because i work in a building that's connected to a montessori school and i happen to overhear things that drive me nuts: like forcing children to be silent while walking down the sidewalk, or saying the word "no" profusely, instead of finding a more clever way to redirect. this is not the montessori school we'd be sending her to anyway, but i'm just trying to narrow down the list here.
if you ask adah what kind of preschool she'd like to go to, it would have to have these characteristics, in this order: "doll cribs, blocks, cows, roller coasters, books, trucks, kitchens, dolls, blankies, and everything."
she's not particular either!
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