Do you think it's purposeful or just ironic that the word genius is somewhat hard to spell?
Anyway, on another note... today Banner proved to me that she is, as I always expected (hehe), a total genius. The girl has done everything early. She craweled like a pro just before the end of 5 months. She could wave 'hi' & 'bye' on command at 6 months. She started cruising a 7 1/2 months. Climbed my stairs at 8 months. Walked at 9. Speed walked at 10. Now at nearly 11 months (tomorrow -- wahhhhh!) she, well, let me explain in detail. We have this little basket at our house. It has a lid on it and on that lid are little cut-outs... a star, a square, a rectangle, etc... you know that toy I'm talking about. The one with the pieces that you drop into it's coordinating shape. We also have this big push around/ride around airplane (thank you Auntie Babe!) and it also has cut outs along its side that you can push coordinating pieces through. Now, the pieces from both toys look practically the same. Same shapes, same colors, same sizes... the only difference is that the ones from the airplane have a graphic on them.
Today, my little genius child sat down in the middle of the floor with all of the pieces from both toys. She then proceeded to sort them... which ones go to the airplane, which ones go in the basket/lid toy. Then she (one by one) picked up the toys to the airplane and pushed the coordinating pieces through their coordinating cut-outs. After, she picked the other toy's pieces up and put them straight in the basket (I guess she figured it was a waste of her time to fiddle with putting them in the correct holes and just decided to bypass that step all together). Then she picked up Henry (her bear... he travels everywhere with her) and walked into the kitchen to mess with mommy's cabinets, ooooh joy - heh. But seriously... what 11 month old can do that? I was totally blown away. Isn't that a 18-24 month benchmark?
I'm not going to lie... I'm beaming. But just a little. :)
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