Repetitive Forgetfulness.

My kid has some odd quirks about her.

Crawling.

Lillian starting crawling combat style at 6 months of age. She figured out how to get up on her hands and knees and crawl shortly after, but liked combat style much better.  She did not actually use "normal" crawling skills for two weeks after learning how to do it originally. At this point she was highly mobile and could not keep her contained for anything. 

Walking.

Lillian took her first steps four days before her first birthday. She walked from the refrigerator to the living room  before getting back on the floor and crawling. She did not take her next steps til two weeks after she turned one. When she decided she was ready, she took off and never slowed down. 

Talking.

Lillian learned new words all the time as she was developing a vocabulary and learning how to talk. Funny thing was she only had a five word vocabulary at any given time and would "forget" a word she learned as she learned a new word". I found this pretty funny!  Especially when the doctor would ask how many words she knew and could use properly.  I would have to respond with "well she only uses five words right now" Obviously, talking is no longer an issue for her! lol

Potty Training.

This was the one thing that she did not "forget" how to do!  lol I started potty training her at a year and half and she was daytime trained by the age of two. It took about a year to figure out how to get her nighttime trained. She would have two week stretches with no accidents and then bam; I would be changing sheets or cleaning floors in the middle of the night or early in the morning. 

Sleeping.

Sleeping is and always has been a battle.  My kid does not sleep. She has never slept the "expected" hours listed by the pediatrician. She has way to much energy and a need to know what it going on every second of every day. Just recently I have learned that she could be highly sensitive to sugar.  So I am limiting her sugar(Easter has blown that out of the routine) and am finding that her energy level is fading fast and she is actually ready for bed and sleeping all night with the help of all natural pineapple juice! 

Now on to the newest first!  

Reading.

Lillian has sounded out/read her first few words!  Excited I am!  But like every other first in her life, she has "forgotten" how to do it. I tried to get her to read a sentence in her Easter Egg Train book and she just looked at me like I was crazy.

I began thinking it was all the medications she is on for allergies and asthma making her "forget". As I am driving home today it hit me.  Lillian has been like this with EVERYTHING she has ever done and when she practices the skill again she takes off and their is no stopping her. Two weeks seems to have been the magic time frame for everything she has "forgotten" so I am hoping that time frame hold true for this as well. I am going to try to wait patiently for her to "remember" how to do it and in the mean time work with her on P, B, and V.  She mixes these sounds up big time!