well, dh and I both come from smart families so our children seemed just normal to us. DS9 has always been intensely focused on learning what he wants to learn - I remember food shopping with him in one of those warehouse stores and him insisting I stop the cart so he can point repeatedly and yell "Dat! dat! dat!" at the large "C" on the sugar bag so I would tell him what letter it was. That was interesting. And his first 6 word sentence was a paraphrase from his favorite book at the time.
And then the first time he "saw" the moon - he was about 9 months old and was absolutely transfixed. Or when he was about 18 months and saw a rainbow, pointed and said "Circle! Round!"
And I know he was less than 2 1/2 (before DS2) when he came into the bedroom one morning singing the "Abc song" then "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" then "Baa Baa Black Sheep" just to let me know they were the same tune (which I had not previously realized!)
Ah yes. DS6 is a totally diffrent kid, yet he was 12 days old when he fixed his gaze on a particular toy, reached out and grabbed it - repeatedly.
He wasn't two yet and couldn't say the word "truck" but could use the phrase "dump car" so, "fire truck" was "hot dump car"
thanks for this thread!
Last edited by Barbara; 10/23/08 07:06 PM.
