This evening, we all went to a lovely little birthday party for Sasha's Grandpa (on her daddy's side). There was cake! And hats! There was singing! And we saw a glimpse deep into Sasha's future.
Grandma was trying to take a picture, and had some trouble with the camera.
"Broken?" Sasha asked, with a penetrating gaze.
"Yes, the camera is broken," Grandma replied.
"Batteries?" suggested Sasha, helpfully.
Yes, my friends, at two years old, already she is doing tech support. My heart swells with pride. Also she counted to ten tonight. When is it too soon to pressure her to go to engineering school?
My kitchen is: Rather on the sticky side. There was an incident with some apple juice. A better person than I might have cleaned it up by now.
Posted by andrea at June 22, 2004 09:14 PMVery insightful for a babe barely two, and very patient as well. She could have grabbed the camera away from Grandpa, yelling 'MOVE!' a la Jimmy Fallon's computer guy from SNL.
I keep waiting for signs of my daughter's intellectual prowess. So far at thirteen months she is quite silent, but she can get both the circle and star-shaped blocks into their respective holes on the shape-sorter (surely a sign of greatness, and damn those squares and triangles!). I hope she takes after her father, and not her hopelessly above-average mother.
Posted by: Kelly on June 23, 2004 02:39 PMThe star is a pretty difficult block!
Don't worry too much about the outward signs of brilliance in a baby. Each one develops differently; and even if your baby is quiet, she may have a rich inner life you don't know anything about yet. ;)