I had the pleasure of covering a teacher in the one-year-old classroom. I was sitting on the floor when child #1, age 16 months came over to see me. She “knows” me and was very busy discovering my hands and bracelet, ears and earrings. She was “talking” and responding to me. I narrated her actions and asked her open ended questions.  

While this was happening I had one eye on a 14 month old who looked skeptical about my being there. I’ll call her child #2.  Child #2 was giving me “the eye”.  After about 5 minutes child #1 was done investigating me and she walked off.

I continued to sit on the floor and before I knew it along crawled child #2. She looked at me and proceeded to mimic, action for action, what child #1 had done to me. She climbed into my lap and investigated me in the same order with the same curiousness that child #1 had demonstrated! 

This was a purely magical moment for me to realize child #2 had watched the whole interaction between child #1 and me and then she copied it! If only we would all take in these moments and get what our impact really is!

Love, love, love these moments that should make up our entire day. 

What amazed you today?