Now I don't want any of you to read this thinking that I'm a crazy parent or that I think my kid is a genius. But I do want to say that kids pick up on more than we give them credit for, if we'd only pay close attention.
We were out at lunch yesterday and Benji wanted to play with the sugar packets while we were reading the menu. He inspected them quite carefully and paid close attention to the letters on the packets. When he lost interest, I cleaned them up and put them away. Later in the meal he stood on the booth and leaned across the table saying something like "ewal, ewal" and possibly with a "peas" thrown in. I couldn't figure out what on earth he wanted and just wanted him to sit down. But when I looked past his gaze and his outstretched arm, I saw the sugar packets and gave him one. That was precisely what he wanted.
No one had read the packets to him at the beginning of the meal, nor had we paid much attention to him at all at that point. Apparently he had been sounding out the words and "read" his first word. We've also been noticing him sounding out "words" (actually just random letters he put together on the fridge) with his refrigerator magnets.
Ten points to the reader who guesses what word Benji read.
i sincerely do not know what you are doing here. are you lost? were you
looking for your delicate calico cat, and did you follow her up two flights of stairs
to this room? she is not here. she was here, yes. we gave her a warm bowl of milk, we talked with her about campaign finance reform for a time, and then she bid us good day. i believe she was
going to the post office two blocks down, but i don't quite recall.
for surely you did
not find your way from prinsiana, the least traveled site on
the internet. if you did, though, perhaps you are looking for humor. perhaps you are looking for profundity. perhaps you are looking for answers.
i'm sorry, but you shall go naught-for-three.
