Baby (Scarlett, 16m): "Ice-kah"Parent: Scarlett eats her first ice cream cone and demonstrates she already knows the word ice cream from other contexts. Of bigger note is her continued use of the left hand. At the very least she is ambidextrous right now--- probably doing about 70% of things left handed.
Development: It turns out handedness usually isn't defined until about 3 years, so it is too early to tell for sure. Actually sole use of 1 hand
before 18mo is potentially a symptom of motor development problems. To the right is a picture of baby Scarlett at 16 DAYS, spontaneously doing the "Archer Pose", a supposed indicator of handedness (they do it in the direction of their dominate hand). Strike one up for an old wives' tale? Check back in a year and a half :) As an odd fact, the latin word for left is Sinister... deserving of another post...
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