Recognizing Landmarks

Fiona can clearly distinguish our block from others in the neighborhood. In the evening when she comes home from day care, she instantly starts shouting "up! up!" when we turn the stroller onto our block. She knows that she gets to walk that last block; she even starts trying to pull her stroller seat belt away in order to climb out faster.

She can also recognize our house. What's especially impressive about that, to me, is that our house is the exact same model as three other other houses lined up in a row on our block (and it's not the first or last one in that row). Of course, Fiona's less than three feet tall, so the differences between the front gates and gardens/patios on each of those houses are probably more apparent to her than the similarity in building design. Anyway, when she reaches the gate in front of our house, she does turn to head for the front steps.

Getting her from the front steps to the actual front door is a bit more of an achievement, of course. Going in the front door means going upstairs, and that would mean she could no longer be outside. And Fiona loves to be outside.

The rest of us slogging along on these 90° and above days aren't so sure.