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These are so funny because I've had so many!!
One was in church, it was all quiet and DS I think was 3, yelled out excitedly " Mom, that man's Bald!"
I think earlier that week we had read a book and it had something in it about someone being bald and DS had asked about what that meant and we had discussed it. He was just excited to see a bald man in real life.
He also liked to say hello to anyone he could make eye contact with in the store, then if they were responsive start a nice conversation. He had a bad interrupting problem, which we tried to help him with, and he got lots better. He still has a habit of saying "Excuse me" before he starts a conversation with adults.

Oh, gee, that reminds me... one of DS's first 'words' was "Amen," said very loudly, and just a few seconds _before_ he was supposed to say it, producing the maximum comedic effect. He also spent most of that service singing along to things you're supposed to let the professionals sing, and pretending to read when other people were reading.

He was very very little at the time, (like 4 or 5 mos) so it probably wasn't really intentional, just happened to get the right sounds together at a funny time