Girl’s Life

I was inspired recently by the hilarious Linda from Purple is a Fruit, who herself has a brilliant toddler, to come up with my own list of why I think Sophia is a regular ol’ child prodigy:

• Can count to 10.
• Can name all the colors of the rainbow.
• Can identify most basic shapes (triangle, rectangle, circle, square, heart, star, oval, etc.)
• Can sing the ABCs with a little prompting and can identify more than 3/4 of the letters of the alphabet by sight.
• Can jump, spin, somersault and dance on command.
• Will sit and read by herself for long stretches. When I read to her she regularly “reads” along, reciting lines out of each story with the various sound effects and voices she’s heard us do.
• Knows both the sign and word for most of the important objects in her life.

But, lest I get too high on the intoxicating scent of full-ride Ivy League scholarships, let me quickly remind myself why Sophia is still an all-around goofball who might not be ready for AP classes just quite yet:

• Has been known to “wash hands” with anything she decides is soap at the time. Some examples include: sticky rice, lotion and the dog.
• Many times when reciting numbers out loud she pretends she is The Count from Sesame Street, complete with the “Ah, ah, ah” at the end of each number.
• Will break out into wild and girly screams and squeals for no apparent reason several times a day, usually followed by a few flailing-armed laps around the coffee table.
• Is always distracted by shiny things. (But, then again, so am I.)
• Still poops her pants.