DS (6) talks very slow and sometimes sounds like a cartoon character. I know that the second he opens his mouth, strangers think "What an odd kid." Pretty sure that's part of his developmental coordination disorder/dyspraxia rather than a true "quirk". when he was a baby through preschooler age, almost all of his speech was in an extremely high pitch, and he went through a 2 month phase when he was around 3 where he meowed like a cat rather than spoke English. The meows were different pitches to communicate different things, for instance happy meows, aggressive meows, etc. He also spent a lot of time crawling around on the floor like a cat.
He has been completely obsessed with Minecraft since he was around 3 (before anyone even knew what it was and all the hype)--it was odd seeing a toddler who could barely talk and communicated by making animal noises, building complex things on there.
DD(7) sleepwalks and every morning we don't know where we will find her in the house. She could be asleep on her bedroom floor, on the bathroom floor, curled up on a living room chair, sprawled out on the floor in the hallway, etc.
When she was 2, her speech was very advanced and she was talking in full, articulate sentences. She called literally everyone "honey" or "hon" (even old biker guys in Wal Mart) and used the word in every other sentence. We would check out at the store and she would say to the cashier "How are you doing today, hon?" She did that for a full year, I think.
