right or left handed?

Neither dh nor myself are left handed, and Sarah is a lefty. It’s funny b/c our ped also told us that you usually can’t tell until somewhere around age 2 b/c they’re quite ambidextrous and experimenting until that time. But it was always obvious with Sarah. When she started self-feeding she always used her left hand, and then it progressed to colouring, t-ball, throwing/catching, using scissors, etc. She also has the steoreo-typical lefty strengths- good verbal, not so great spatial. (Or is that a sterotypical girl strength??… I can’t remember!). DH used to be very concerned about her left handedness when she was younger, and his family used to want us to encourage her to use her right hand so that she wouldn’t be a lefty. I never cared much either way and thought that his worry about it was comical. Obviously once Hailey came along she gave him something to make him forget his lefthanded worries about Sarah. The only thing I have noticed is that she has a harder time learning to print then other kids do, and her letters go backwards. I was worried about dyslexia (I know, I’m a worry wart) but her teacher told me that they often see left handed kids make this mistake. I think it’s neat that she’s left handed, I don’t know why. I guess I never thought that I would have a lefty, but my sister is left handed, so maybe it’s in my genes.

I guess left handedness is in my genes… my grandmother, my sister, and Sarah.

Did all you lefties remember having a hard time learning to write b/c you were left handed. Sarah’s teachers are using this as an excuse, but I’m wondering if she has perceptual issues that makes her printing so bad. I know that she’s only 4 (not even), but it seems like the other kids in her class are leaps and bounds ahead of her in the printing/drawing department, even though some of them are almost a year younger.