As of today, Sasha has clearly and unquestionably surpassed me in intellect. This is an event a parent hopes will someday occur, but preferably not until you are done arguing about allowances and curfews. It bodes very ill for me that it has happened so early in my child's life.
Allow me to explain.
This morning, as I was helping Sasha get ready for her day, she held up one foot in the air and said "This is my left foot." Then she held up the other and said "This is my right foot." She looked at me expectantly. She was, of course, correct.
I asked her to identify her left and right hands, ears, elbows, knees, eyes... she got it all. People, I am not capable of differentiating left from right with such a high degree of confidence, nor at such a rate of speed, nor with such accuracy.
Clearly Sasha is a super-genius baby, and will grow up to cure cancer, solve the problem of world hunger, and also will fashion a Grand Unification Theory so elegant that even laymen will weep at its beauty. There can be no other explanation.
Especially not any explanation that begins with me failing to master skills any grade-school child can display. Nosirree. No way. Not going to happen.
Posted by andrea at January 12, 2005 10:39 PM