Take a moment to watch & learn

“Research shows that you begin learning in the womb and go right on learning until the moment you pass on. Your brain has a capacity for learning that is virtually limitless, which makes every human a potential genius.”

- Michael J. Gelb

I have a 17 month old boy and he is at the stage in life where his learning curve is going ballistic. Every day he amazes me with what he remembers, retains and regurgitates (& sometimes it is more than metophorical).

For Christmas I got a dodgy clock, temperature & barometer 3in1 item that I was supposed to take into the office. I am not sure why I want to know what temperature it is at work and if the air conditioning has sucked all the moisuture out of the air but anyhow the temperature guage was completely faulty. Actually this year it really annoyed the shit out of me when I got a crappy present. We are doing it quite tough so a $15 present & $2 card and $1 piece of wrapping paper if given as a voucher could actually make me happy. Instead we get more junk that we can't even sell on e-bay that goes straight to the bin.   So after leaving it on the window sill for a couple of days, during a clean up, I decided to add it to Kaelan's pile of toys. He comes home later on and is playing with his toys when he sees the 3in1, picks it up, walks to his mother, hands it to her and points to the window sill. I was impressed.

Last Friday I was teacng him body parts. This started well over a month ago when it took 3 days to teach him where his nose was. On the day I am talking about it took about half a day and now a month later it takes about a minute! I taught him where his willy was and the action to go along with it was to use both hands and grab the nappy. Question- where's your willy? Response- 'both hands on nappy & pull up'. Quite amusing at the grandparents.

But I got bored and taught him the difference between a booger & a nose, ie nose on the outside, booger on the inside. Most amusing again until that night in the shower with his mum where he proudly displays his newly learnt knowledge by shoving his finger up his mums nose. 'No dear, no idea why he did that'. 

Now I am dreading the day when he learns how to speak proper and amazes the day care kids & staff with his proud willy grab.