Hellobee Boards

DS has been obsessed with scooters for months, so my mom finally bought him one of his own. We took the new scooter on vacation, still in the box. Turned out it needed some assembly. DS surprised me by bursting into tears when he heard: "Oh no, we don't have a screwdriver to put this together!" Then shocked me even more when he got off the scooter and stopped crying after I said "Daddy will find someone with a screwdriver while you nap!" He's usually all about right now - I had no clue he has that much patience or knows what a screwdriver is

She knows the lyrics to "All my Lovin" by The Beatles, verbatim!

We were in a summer reading program. The theme for one class was colors - my LO has been able to identify colors for a long time. She also knows a lot of sight words and has most of her books memorized, but it's not like we drill her.

So at the class they had a worksheet with little mice and each mouse had a color written below it for the kids to color the correct color. I asked my LO what color the first mouse should be and she correctly told me "red" and picked up the red marker and colored it. This went on with blue, yellow, orange, green and purple (her favorite color. She has seen these words so many times that she can identify the words and pick the correct color.

Then we get to black and I think she's going to tell me blue b/c it's a "B" word...she tells me "black"...and again she surprises me by correctly telling me the next mouse is pink (again, I thought she was going to say purple b/c it's a "P" but somehow she knew)...and again she surprises me by knowing the next mouse is grey. I am just kind of shocked b/c I have never worked on this with her...I had no idea she could just read these colors. I thought there was no way she would know the last mouse...so I say "do you know what color this mouse is supposed to be? It's kind of a hard one." And she says right away "white." I was just floored.

She was 2 years 8 months last month when we were in the class. She was by far the youngest in the class, but was the one kid who could read all the colors on the page.

Well, she is only 16 months, but the words she learns boggle my mind. Like green bean. Why is that one of the 35 or so words you choose to learn? You don't even really like them, unless we are at the garden...

She surprises me a lot. The latest being she pulled out a green marker and said "green!"

The other day we asked our 17 month old, Where is L? And he pointed at himself and said "Me!" Where did he get this concept of ME? We've never taught him that!

@sandy: I am impressed at your amazing memory! I can't believe that you remembered I am a music person.

And secretly, I kind of hope she wants to pursue music like her mama.

DS is almost 2 but not a great talker yet. He did have strange choices for his first words - would say broom before consistently saying mama! The latest thing I don't know that it is surprising but I thought it was funny. We were all in the car and the baby was crying so DS told him to "be quiet!" He has never said that before or since but I'm sure it's not the last time we'll hear it!