Obviously my child is some kind of frickin’ genius
In the morning, with Fin nestled between us in the bed, Jen and I discussed plans for the day ahead. “You could go to the B-E-A-C-H,” I suggested. It’s like with dogs: you don’t want to get their hopes up.
“Beach?” Fin said.
Probably coincidence. And, I have to admit, the sequence of letters B-E-A-C-H does sound a bit like “beach.”
That night, Fin wanted to read “Farm.” This is a book with pictures of things you find on farms, labeled accordingly. It’s not much in the plot department, and forget about character development, but she likes it.
She pointed at the first letter of the title and said, “Green F.”
She’s just turned two. Sometimes I get frightened at her growing power. Today she can spell. Tomorrow she may shoot lasers from her eyes. The day after that, she may leave me.
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Phill Sacre (#1822)
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"Maybe it's time we considered the i-n-s-a-n-e a-s-y-l-u-m?"
Yenzo (#829)
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That said, that's a cute picture of Fin. She looks like she's considering bursting the balloon with her eye-lasers.
Jeffrey (#2286)
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Danni (#357)
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Posted: 6041 days ago
(From someone else who could read at 2.)
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Erin Tams (#2127)
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Posted: 6041 days ago
Just make you realize they understand more than you thought. . .Quite scary at times.
Richard (#2051)
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Posted: 6040 days ago
...and now I realize I've just compared your genius daughter to a dog. At least she's a smart dog, right?
Christie (#2970)
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Posted: 6040 days ago
I wish I COULD shoot lasers from my eyes, though. That would be cool.
That picture of Fin is ultra-cute, by the way.
Joe (#2270)
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Petar (#3280)
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Janet (#2030)
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Posted: 6040 days ago
Children like that make me wanna grow up and have children xD Means I won't have to worry about them yellingscreamingcrying so much :o
I'm so lazy, huh?
Greg (#3266)
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Eric Mugendi (#2567)
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Posted: 6040 days ago
And I don't think the laser eyes should be a problem. Just appease her enough to make her do stuff with it, like liging the fireplace, melting the scrap metal, you know, fun for the whole family...
Michael Ricksand (#2212)
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Arancaytar (#2358)
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Posted: 6039 days ago
Jennifer M. Dambeck (#3061)
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Posted: 6039 days ago
My little girl is about the same age and I've begun to say that if she doesn't stop acting so precocious-ly I'm going to have have to sign her up for one of those Ivy-Leauge pre-schools . . .
Lottie (#3093)
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Posted: 6038 days ago
I think I saw some on ebay, actually.
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Max
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