When your hands just don't work......

Most children drop things every now & again, but recently Maggie has taken this to new heights, so much so that I started keeping a tally during the holidays. Every time we have been out to eat recently, she has dropped her drink. She has spilled water on my computer, her record is 3 times in one day, she dropped a Sprite on the floor at the ice skating rink and broke the Styrofoam cup: you name it, she's dropped it!!!!! Last night, we took her out to eat with us after we dropped Ben off at the YMCA. We went to Culpepper's to get chicken wings, she dropped her drink on the floor under the table-the lid came off & there was ice everywhere. We went to Kaldi's to get coffee, she spilled her hot chocolate all over herself and me (luckily, the lid did not come off). Her tally is now standing at 11 since the school break and she has yet to go somewhere that her drink remains intact. We noticed last night that she is only using one hand to pick things up now and her hands aren't really big enough to do that yet, so maybe that is the problem. I also noticed yesterday that she is picking things up with her left hand and that she was cutting with her left hand, so maybe she is going to be left handed. I am ashamed to admit that I haven't ever noticed if she draws (scribbles) with her left or right hand, I will have to look out for that today. At Maggie's age, Ben used to do everything left handed but then over the first couple of school years, he progressively used his right more and more. When he was in kindergarten, he'd start at the left with his left hand and then switch to his right when he got to the middle of the page. It made sense to me, but then I used to start at the right side of the paper and work backwards-perfectly logical for the left handed amongst us!!!! And, this is why my sister used to call me "Enaj".......