March 08, 2007 - 12:36 AM.

"Genuth"

Now suddenly the child is putting things to bed. I made a dollhouse when I first moved in w/J, complete w/little furniture, and the boy has discovered it. He plucks out the 2 little beds, sets their headboards back-to-back, and lays 2 little figurines from a toy fire truck on them -- "Guy gonna get in his BED, an' Dog gonna get in his CWIB." Tonight he insisted on hauling both little beds, the firefighter (henceforth "Guy") and the red-helmeted Dalmation (henceforth "Dog") into his bedroom with him, and arranging them just so at the foot of his own bed, so they could sleep comfortably in there with him.

A couple days ago we were playing outdoors, and he did something clever like figure out how to rotate a piece of gravel so it fit through the small hole in something. Then, proving that we call him this entirely too often in his hearing, he looked at me with a mixture of pride and mischief and lisped, "Genus."

Genius indeed!

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