It wasn’t that he wasn’t talking. He would jabber on through binkied mouth in phrases and repeated words about 20 % distinguishable to the non-relative ear. So imagine my surprise when he walked up to me first thing in the morning and said:
“Reid hit me in the head!”
I nearly cried. How beautiful! His first sentence. Subject-check. Verb-check. Bonus points for the prepositional phrase. I let it rest for an hour or so. I just wanted to soak in the amazement. Later I smelled something foul and asked Rhett if he had stinky pants. He replied:
“No, Grandma changed me.”
I nearly cried. How beautiful! His second sentence. Subject-check. Verb-check. Bonus points for the exclamation. I let it rest for an hour or so. I just wanted to soak in the amazement. Later he walked into the kitchen. He announced:
“I go in car. I go in fiiiiiiive minutes.”
I nearly cried. How beautiful! His first two sentence combination. Subject-check/check. Verb-check/check. Bonus prepositional phrase-check/check. I also felt like I needed to award additional points for catchy phrasing and dramatic delivery.
Let’s take inventory of his first 4 sentences. His life is in peril. He resourcefully recruits help as needed. He is on the move. He is giving me warning. This is a pretty clear and concise picture of his world here at casa de Nirvana.
I am hiding the car keys and my cell phone. I have no idea what skills he will master or what he might say next…Rhett(2) woke up 3 days ago speaking in complete sentences.
It wasn’t that he wasn’t talking. He would jabber on through binkied mouth in phrases and repeated words about 20 % distinguishable to the non-relative ear. So imagine my surprise when he walked up to me first thing in the morning and said:
“Reid hit me in the head!”
I nearly cried. How beautiful! His first sentence. Subject-check. Verb-check. Bonus points for the prepositional phrase. I let it rest for an hour or so. I just wanted to soak in the amazement. Later I smelled something foul and asked Rhett if he had stinky pants. He replied:
“No, Grandma changed me.”
I nearly cried. How beautiful! His second sentence. Subject-check. Verb-check. Bonus points for the exclamation. I let it rest for an hour or so. I just wanted to soak in the amazement. Later he walked into the kitchen. He announced:
“I go in car. I go in fiiiiiiive minutes.”
I nearly cried. How beautiful! His first two sentence combination. Subject-check/check. Verb-check/check. Bonus prepositional phrase-check/check. I also felt like I needed to award additional points for catchy phrasing and dramatic delivery.
Let’s take inventory of his first 4 sentences. His life is in peril. He resourcefully recruits help as needed. He is on the move. He is giving me warning. This is a pretty clear and concise picture of his world here at casa de Nirvana.
I am hiding the car keys and my cell phone. I have no idea what skills he will master or what he might say next…
It wasn’t that he wasn’t talking. He would jabber on through binkied mouth in phrases and repeated words about 20 % distinguishable to the non-relative ear. So imagine my surprise when he walked up to me first thing in the morning and said:
“Reid hit me in the head!”
I nearly cried. How beautiful! His first sentence. Subject-check. Verb-check. Bonus points for the prepositional phrase. I let it rest for an hour or so. I just wanted to soak in the amazement. Later I smelled something foul and asked Rhett if he had stinky pants. He replied:
“No, Grandma changed me.”
I nearly cried. How beautiful! His second sentence. Subject-check. Verb-check. Bonus points for the exclamation. I let it rest for an hour or so. I just wanted to soak in the amazement. Later he walked into the kitchen. He announced:
“I go in car. I go in fiiiiiiive minutes.”
I nearly cried. How beautiful! His first two sentence combination. Subject-check/check. Verb-check/check. Bonus prepositional phrase-check/check. I also felt like I needed to award additional points for catchy phrasing and dramatic delivery.
Let’s take inventory of his first 4 sentences. His life is in peril. He resourcefully recruits help as needed. He is on the move. He is giving me warning. This is a pretty clear and concise picture of his world here at casa de Nirvana.
I am hiding the car keys and my cell phone. I have no idea what skills he will master or what he might say next…
Just for shits and grins give him a Harry Potter book and see if he can read it in less than a month. Or see if he at least doesnt turn it into a projectile with his brothers as the target.
KEEP BELIEVING
He is clearly a genius. That is all.
Our babies how they grow up fast! Before you know he will be graduating like mine. 🙁
Let the fun begin! Time to start counting gray hairs.
A veritable genius!
How wonderful. Maybe that’s what Callee will do because she will be 2 in July and you can barely understand a word that child says.
Surely a budding linguistics major!
Throw him a rubix cube. Its amazing what these little pick up. I’m trying to get my three year old to do my taxes this year.
That’s so adorable 🙂
It’s only a matter of time before he masters the internet and gets himself into some serious chat rooms…time to lock up the computer as well. LOL.