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This has been a very precocious couple of days for DD. She has been cracking me up too. I just wanted to share some of our moments of this week.

So DD asked me while we were eating fruit cocktails
�Why do we have grapes� so of course I answered �Because they are in the can.�
The conversation went like this
DD: �No I mean WHY do we have grapes? Why are they in this world�
Me: �Because God made them.�
DD: "No really. Why aren�t you giving me the real answer?!� (She was getting very frusterated at this point.)
Me: �Well why don�t you tell me what the answer is then baby?�
DD: (Thinks for a minute) �hmmm, maybe that question is too difficult. Okay, lets try this one. Why is there a sun?�
Me : �because God made it to warm the grapes.� (really hoping this is the answer she wants so she wont get mad at me LOL.)
DD: �No really, Why is there a sun�
Me: �you mean the big bang, particles, energy going out into the ever expanding universe, then being pulled together into stars which one of which is our sun?�
DD: �Yes, okay- now lets go back to the grapes and see if we can figure out why grapes are here.�
Oh man�.all during lunch.

Then today oh, man today was a doozy LOL

In the car on the way to the library DD says:
"It takes sperm from a man and an egg from a woman to make a baby. The sperm has to mix with the egg, so I guess they do a little dance. Yep, they would have to do a little dance to get all mixed up."
Ummm....shes been reading that encyclopedia Nana got her for Christmas in her room.

Then later.
DD was playing with the broom while I was on the phone with my mom and getting DD ready to go to a friends house.
Me- "Put the broom up please."
Turn around and she is holding it all the way up by the bristles with the top of the pole touching the ceiling
Me-"Go to time out, I told you to put the broom up!"
DD- "Well mom, there's 2 meanings of put up. To put away and to put "up" as in in up in the air. You didn't say put the broom away!"
Well she was right so no time out LOL. Then she said �Mom, did you see how I played with those words? That was so fun. Will you tell dad when he calls tonight?� (Dad is out off the island this week for work."

She also went grocery shopping with me today and spotted yogart that she wanted.
DD: �mom, the yogart is on sale, can you push the buggy over there.� So I did. Can I have yogart these are only 99 cents.
Me: Well look at these.
DD: Those are 69 cents mom. They are less because 69 is less than 99. So can I have those?"

She also picked out our milk by telling me which brand was less, then wrote me a long note about not forgetting the my reusable shopping bags on the back of my list while we checked out.

�Never fogrt these bags mom so I am teling you now. Sin Ansley.� Then she drew a heart and a picture of me which she wrote underneath �it is you mom.�

LOL, a fun, precocious week. One of those times when I just shake my head in amazement.

So who else is wants to share precocious kid moments? Come on you know you want to LOL.

Welll, if you insist........... ok.... ""=words []=signs

DS has decided he's not a baby anymore, and that he wants a baby. (This is good, because we're going to start trying in a week So he packed up all the clothes he could find that were too small for him (and, I will add, wore a 3-6 mo night-dress thing as a shirt all day, having discovered it was not, precicely, too small) and said "Mama" [want you] "baby" (wild gesticulation indicating "give" for which he has no sign or word). The next day he attempted to nurse my best friend's 8month old. The 8month old was slightly confused, but thoroughly ammused. However, when this failed, he pulled up my shirt and nearly had her latched before I managed to explain that the particular 8month old's mom isn't really into milk-sharing

Maybe when we have a new one, DS can do night-duty and just latch it on when it cries. That could be good. He's up twenty times a night ANYWAY...



-Mich.

Mich- Oh man, thats awsome. DD always breastfed her stuffed animals. I bet yall were cracking up. SO cute!

Great stories.

My advice: video camera. You have to record these things!

Amazed, I love that your dd wrote you a note on the back of the list. How precious. I do find they adore their mommies at this age, don't they?

They do....and we definitly need to record more. I don't get the video camera out enough here.

Amazedmom your DD sounds adorable! My mother tells similar stories and even wrote a diary in the form of several letters to me which she passed on when I turned 18. There are many funny precocious moments detailed in this diary and I suggest every parent of a gifted child to keep one. A gifted child myslef, I was sitting in the bath while my Aunty watched on. She was recently separated and I stunned her when I looked up and asked 'Aunty Teena, do you cry at night because you are sad that Uncle Phillip doesn't live with you anymore?'. No one had talked about the separation in front of me however I obviously realised she was sad and they were no longer living together. I was two and a half years old at the time.

This was such a treat to read.

DD shares your daughter's curiosity, sass, love of language, and inate understanding of the world around her. I love these conversations.

Awesome!! We had an almost identical conversation when DD8.5 was three or four. She decided that God mixed them up like the milkshake machine at McDonalds did with the shake mix. Still can't order a shake from there to this day...

My little man 2.5 has finally started to talk! In February he only had 30 or so words, which he used sparingly. Last week, we pulled into our driveway and saw that a tree had blown down in the wind. He says to me "Oh no! Look Mommy! Tree fell down. Poor old tree." This is the same kid who could barely string two words together a few weeks ago. Talk about go big or go home.