I've been lurking here for a few months. This is sort of my introduction to see if anyone else thinks my daughter could possibly be gifted.

My daughter is 7.5 months old.

She smiled at 3 weeks, grabbed things at 2 months, sat supported at 3 months, sat alone at 4 months, crawled at 5 months, pulled up at 6 months, threw a ball (played ball back and forth) at 6 months, and is cruising and walking holding on to only one of our hands at 7.5 months. I predict 2-3 weeks to first steps.

She opens drawers and cupboards to pull stuff out, "got" object permanence awhile ago (always would come up to me and try to get into my shirt for food lol and finds things easily that are hidden.)

She didn't start babbling or making much noise until 6 months when she started with with baba and clicking her tongue. Now she just experiments with different consonants.

At 3 months would spend up to 40 minutes concentrating on taking apart this stacking toy she has and I am not sure exactly when she started doing this, but I have her on video around 3 months turning the pages of her board books (I had to lift the page up a little) when I said "Turn the page!" She would study pictures in books really really early.

She looks for daddy and doggy when I ask where they are and has for at least 2 or 3 months now. The other night I was in the bathroom and my husband was trying to teach her the baby sign for milk and she said "mama". It had to be a coincidence, though...?

Her pincer grip is improving a lot and she's recently started touching things she shouldn't just so she can crack up when I say "No" to her.

She isn't an easy baby and stays up for days with short naps and then finally crashes for 5 or 6 hour nap some days. We had to endlessly walk around with her in sitting position even right after birth and show her things so she wouldn't cry, though she was dairy intolerant and I didn't figure it out right away.

I don't know what else to say. According to my books, she has passed almost all the milestones leading up to 12 months.. except when it comes to saying words. I know giftedness can be hereditary. I was slower according to my baby book (though still somewhat ahead) and my mom says I missed the gifted program by 2 points when I was 6, so who knows.

Last edited by islandofapples; 07/20/11 11:07 AM.