Time out

I would like to take time out from my catching up to post about how brilliant my son is. This evening he brought his "colors" book to AJ for him to read. He hasn't even looked at this book in weeks, if not months, to my knowledge, but thought it was the book for him today. It's basically a board book with a picture of something on each page, and the word under it and the color of both objects on the facing pages written above. For example, a picture of a pink flower on one page and a picture of a girl with a pink dress on the other page, with Pink on the top, and "flower" and "dress" written below the respective pics. OK, so AJ went through the book and was asking him what things were, and what color they were rather than reading it to him. Josh knew what pretty much every picture was (sometimes using alternate words rather than the ones listed, for example: "clothes" instead of "dress"), and knew most of the colors! The ones he didn't know, he'd guess at, saying white for a grey bird with some white on his chest, since he mostly only knows the more basic colors like yellow, blue, red, green, white, etc.

That's all I really wanted to say...just to brag on my smart little boy a little and let you all know what he's up to learning-wise. He also knows his numbers from 1-10, and also 17...b/c of his daddy's plane (C-17), and he's working on being able to sing "Twinkle, twinkle, Little Star," "ABC's," "Happy Birthday," "5 Little Ducks," and "No More Monkeys Jumping on the Bed." He is just absolutely brilliant and picks things up constantly, and even has 2-yr.-old logic working in his little head...not always the same logic as us adults, but still so fun to see him reason things out according to how his brain works and the things he knows. He also figured out how to put his train track together today, for the first time, and spent at least 30 min. at it! It was fun to watch the different directions and pieces he used for the track!

Anyway, now you know how brilliant he is...or at least have one more instance of it, if you already knew...as almost everyone should!