Learning verified

So, I ended my last post (*cough*fivemonthsago*cough*) talking about learning from others. So I did.  I had this silly idea that I had to have pictures to go with my posts so I've been less than diligent about posting, because I'm less than diligent about getting pictures uploaded to photo sharing sites, or even off my camera.  Anyway, thanks Amber, for showing me how it can be done.

Not only have I learned, but I watched my daughter learn today.  Something so tiny, so mundane, but so easy to see that a real transfer of knowledge had happened.  And I find it marvelous. Merica was playing with a pin cushion (yeah, yeah, spare me the lecture) and in the process of taking all of the pins out, my aunt offered her a magnet to pick them all up.  Which mostly worked (there were a few aluminum pins that wouldn't play along.)  About four hours later, she dropped one and couldn't find it, so she went to the fridge, found a magnet and started "sweeping" the floor.  Ingenuity at its finest.  There's a reason her progress report looked stellar.