When you're a kid with hemiplegia, sometimes even little things are really hard to do.
Take peeling a tangerine, for example...pretty easy for you or me, right? But not so easy if you have trouble using one of your hands.
And that's a bummer because Curtis loves tangerines. You know those little Cuties? He would eat 10 of them if I let him.
Recently, he's been asking to take little bits of the peel off himself--so I'll start it and then he'll take off the last few pieces of the peel. But in the past few days, he has insisted that he peel the whole thing himself--start to finish. It's a mess (picture the juice of the tangerine dripping all the way down his little arms and onto his clothes, the floor, everywhere)...but he does it. And he is so proud.
So am I.
Recently, he's been asking to take little bits of the peel off himself--so I'll start it and then he'll take off the last few pieces of the peel. But in the past few days, he has insisted that he peel the whole thing himself--start to finish. It's a mess (picture the juice of the tangerine dripping all the way down his little arms and onto his clothes, the floor, everywhere)...but he does it. And he is so proud.
So am I.
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