Eva is as bright as a button. In the words of Louisa May Alcott, she naturally “picks up learning as pigeons do peas”. When we were at the DMV the other day (finally getting our Oregon license plates), she recognized the numbers at each window and started pointing them out to me: “Gook (look), Mommy! One, two, three..”, all the way up to 12. When I read her a book, she points to random letters and names them: “A! P! W! X!” She’s starting to identify shapes now, and can point out a triangle, circle, square and rectangle (though she can’t pronounce them all properly). I have to give most of the credit to Sesame Street at this point, since I haven’t really spent all that much time teaching her these things yet. I’ve been trying to teach her colors, but that’s more challenging. Different shades can be confusing, and let’s face it: whether aqua is really blue or green is in the eye of the beholder. Yesterday she was playing with the plastic food in her kitchen drawer and showed them to me as she named them: “Apple! Broccoli! Watermelon!” She put the toy banana to her ear and said “Gook, mommy, banna tel-fone! Dat’s silly!” Then she started laughing at her own joke: “Funny!” So now she can imagine that one thing is another, and can make up her own jokes, too! Boy, they grow up so fast!
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