Sore arm
On November 1, 2011
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A week and a half ago Grace fell quite awkwardly while visiting friends and seemed to hurt her arm quite badly. There was lots of crying but eventually things settled down. We were pretty worried she might have fractured it somehow at the time, but after that she could still do everything that she usually does. The only problem (which is still a problem) is that when she falls in anyway she seems to hurt her arm and starts saying "sore arm."
Grace has since figured out that she might be able to leverage her "sore arm" to get out of doing things she does not want to. Over the last few days she has started saying "sore arm" when asked to do simple tasks like pack her crayons away. Pretty much anything which she is asked to do, which she does not want to do gets the "sore arm" treatment. I guess this is part of being two…although…
We had our monthly speech therapy session today (which went really well) and Sue thinks this is actually quite an advanced level of manipulation for her age – most two year old's just throw a tantrum and kick/scream/etc. Interesting. That might cause some challenges later on.
Speech therapy today was very rewarding. Sue had prepared some exercises to help Grace end off her words, but Grace can already do many of them (to Sue's amazement). Something Sue said stuck out, "If you had brought her to me for the first time now, I would have said there is nothing to worry about."