Left-handed?

Before Anna's last doctor's appointment we started to wonder if she was left-handed. She preferred to look to the left and only sucked on her left hand. The doctor told us it was impossible to tell at this point.

A few weeks later Matt found an article on the internet (part of an article discussing the fact that both Obama and McCain are left-handed) describing a strange correlation with left-handedness: the direction that someone's hair twirls in the back (only possible to determine with short hair cuts). Most people whose hair twirls counterclockwise are left-handed! (This is fascinating from a biological perspective - which causes which or are they both correlated with something else?) On the other hand, it's not a guarantee and some people who are left-handed have hair that twirls the other way. So what does Anna have? Her hair twirls clockwise, but....so does Matt's. So I say that if she got her left-handedness from her father she would also be a clockwise hair-twirling left-hander like him.

So the reason I thought to write this post right now is that Anna is currently laying on the floor under her play gym toys and she has been hitting her rattle with her left hand. Now I've never seen her do this before (and I'm still not convinced it is not just a by product of her arm randomly swinging around), but every time she does it, it is with her left hand!

We'll see - the doctor also told Matt's mom that there was no way she could tell he was left-handed, but she knew - not this early, but earlier than supposedly it was possible.