While discussing Dad’s upcoming birthday:
Andy-“Yeah, you only have one more age and then you’re 40!”
Browsing Category Andy
Now It’s Languages
Today Andy gave me the alphabet in French. And when I asked, he proceeded to also do it in Spanish.
WTF?
BTW
Nana: “Watch where you’re aiming that thing!”
Andy: “Oh, it’s a penis, by the way!”
Genius?
I got Andy these 2 puzzles where the pieces have the alphabet on one side and numbers on the other side. One set has black lettering and one has white. At one point today, we were missing one piece. I was looking thru the remaining pieces and he told me the one we needed was green with a white V and 22 on the back. That’s when I noticed that the pieces were laid out with the numbers showing but he was putting together the alphabet side. So I tested him. I took several random pieces. Showed him one side and asked what was on the other side switching between letters and numbers and he got every single one right with hardly any hesitation. Is that genius or savant?
Definitely Reading
Dad was standing in the kitchen and heard Andy muttering to himself: “Betty Boop? Betty Boop! I never watched Betty Boop before!” Dad peeks around the corner and sees Andy bent over the chair reading titles from the DVD cabinet!
Andy Gems In a Matter of a Few Minutes
Andy’s been told he has x many sleeps til his birthday. This morning “I had one more good sleep and you know what that means!”
He’s made cards for Mother’s Day, Dad’s Birthday, Evie’s Birthday, Father’s Day. This morning “Can we make cards for me?”
And the best so far “Hey, how can we have my birthday when there’s no cake on the table?”
Ahhhh!
At nap time, I read Andy his book, put the chair in the laid back position and hear “Ahhhhh, have a good sleep, myself!”
More Logic
I let Andy help me dry when I do dishes but plastic stuff only, of course. He asked me if he could help me dry today and since there wasn’t much plastic, I told him I didn’t really have anything for him to dry. His response was “How come you say you don’t have anything for me to dry when these are all wet?”
Reading
We’ve been wondering for awhile now if Andy can read. A couple days ago while walking into Home Depot, he clearly read STOP written on the ground. It wasn’t a red stop sign so it wasn’t a case of recognizing a symbol. Today I had a shirt on that says I’m Lost. He ran his fingers across the letters in lost and while he pronounced it with a long O, he said lost clear as a bell. That’s reading. He also can count up to 100, even backwards for a ways, knows the alphabet and all the sounds, upper case and lower case, is doing some basic math. All that besides the things like colors and shapes and what have you. Even things like trapezoids and stuff I don’t even know. In other words, he’s pretty far ahead of where he should be. I can’t say as I agree with watching TV every minute of the day, but, boy, has he learned A LOT!!!
Sports
Andy helps Mama put away folded clothes. She gave him a stack and asked him to put it in his old crib. He put it over the side, shot his hands in the air and shouted “He scores!”