we are being evaluated by a center for child development, which is great, (i hope). it's supposed to give us a diagnosis and a plan for us and for cody. it's a never ending bunch of tests, though. today the psychologist showed cody a picture of a cartoon peter pan. cody didn't know who it was. ok, he has seen the old peter pan movie with mary martin, but he has never seen the cartoon. didn't know who snow white was either, or charlie chaplin- "that's you!" he said to the psychologist.
the only ones he knew were winnie-the-pooh and mickey mouse- with some prompting. i told the psychologist this was a culturally biased test, and we moved on. (this was not the first time we have seen this particular test, by the way, and the last psychologist who administered it was OUTRAGED that my kids have not seen a cartoon peter pan movie or a snow white movie).
anyway, after the torture, i took cody to mcdonalds. i also had to stop in at a tax office (don't ask) but i figured that we'd take the food, and that would keep him busy. my bad. he cried the whole time in the office, because he wanted to eat AT the mcdonalds, it wasn't just the food he needed, it was the mcdonalds je ne sais quois. anyway, the people at the tax office were very nice, and they let me jump to the front of the line, and i got my business done in two minutes flat. (hmmm, maybe i should take him every time) then we went back to mcdonalds and soaked up the ambience to cody's heart's content.
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