Great thread! It' so true that we have warped sense of what is "normal!"
DD6 was also very alert and aware of his surroundings at birth. He cried for a couple of seconds and then just stared around the room and at me with this little "o" shape to his lips. The funniest thing I can remember though, is when he was 2-3 months old, my dh would read him this story about a funny little monster who tried to sound scary. The "monster" would try to sound scary (and dh would make the noise and show his muscles), but he wasn't scary at all. The little monster just sounded silly and made everyone laugh. I assume ds didn't know what we were reading to him, but he started making his own little monster noise and motion with his body (arching his back, scrunching up his face, tensing all of his muscles, and making a little noise) when dh would get close to the moster-noise part of the book. So, after that we'd just say, "show us your monster!" and ds would do it on command. We thought it was hilarious and definitely curious, but we had no idea what we were in for! LOL
Ds also talked in complete sentences very early and always pronounced words correctly from the beginning. No developmental mispronuciations of words. I'm a speech therapist, so I always thought that was different.
