E announced yesterday morning that she wanted to learn to tie her shoes (of course we bought her new velcro sneakers only last weekend--the kind with the stretchy, criss-cross straps, not the BABY kind).
We got out the old hand-me-down flowered green keds and I showed her how with the first shoe: tie a knot, make a tree, the bunny goes around the tree and through the hole, pull, double knot. She tried it with the second and didn't have much success; we ended up doing it together.
When I picked her up at school, her teacher said "Tell your mom what you did today." I thought she was going to say she wrote the morning message on the whiteboard (which she did, and a fabulous job of it too--I knew because it said so on the daily report outside the classroom, and I'd already checked it out). But no, she announced that she had tied her shoe during nap! Yes, her teacher confirmed, when nap was over she showed them her shoe and she had tied it, all by herself.
This morning she wanted to tie her shoes again. So she did. A little loosely, but hey, it's only the second day, and she has the rest of her life to get it tight.
(She's particularly excited because A and N can't tie their shoes yet, and she is younger than them.)
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