Last night as we were reading one of Jimmie's favorite books "Do Cows Meow?" we realized just how much he is listening and how smart he is! As you might guess, it's a book about animal sounds. At the end there is a page with all of the animals, so just for fun I thought I'd ask him where the animals are.
"Jimmie, where's the pig? Oink oink!"
He looks at me and then the book and pointed to the pig.
"Wow good job!! Let's see if you can do another. Jimmie, where's the sheep? Baa baa!"
Points to the sheep. WHAT THE?! We kept going and he got all of them right! I couldn't believe it.
We tried again this morning and he got about half right. Some of them it seems like he really knows as he dives at the book to point to certain ones. Other ones I think he had gotten lucky guesses on ;) The duck is very confusing to him. And the cow he likes to point out on the front cover instead of the page.
Every time I try and get a video though, he doesn't want to do it and is distracted by the phone. Eventually we will get it. For now, I'm just totally surprised and proud of my big boy!
And we hope he feels better soon.
Until then, we will keep snuggling, reading books, and eating Swedish pancakes! Bananas, strawberries, Swedish pancakes, oh my!
He's so smart!! Good job on the books with him. I just love when babies are at this stage where they start learning things like that.
ReplyDeleteWow!! That's amazing. Can't wait to see him and you guys in a few weeks.
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