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My first thought was: Should I be worried?  A friend who’s a mental health professional says, No. Says I should be more worried if she’s drawing faces with no mouth, or no eyes, etc. Weelllllll, okay, I says, marginally convinced.
I put it to the lil’ monkey.
Baba: Wow, sweetie, that’s quite a drawing. [...]

My recent braggy fit about our daughter’s budding literacy might have left the impression that we’ve rushed out and purchased a set of kid-sized Latin flash cards. We are thrilled for her, and cliché-proud, and daily taken aback by what goes on in her feverishly active little brain. But we’re more tempted by [...]

Stop the presses our daughter’s a frickin’ genius! (Bet you never heard that out of a proud parent’s mouth.)
And we aren’t the only ones freaking out about it. I think she is, too. Just got a call from the preschool that she is on a hunger fast, and won’t leave the [...]

  
The text message you don’t want to get from your partner when you’re away at work (right before I hit “Send”).  Or at least, you wouldn’t want it cut off at the first sentence.
Are any details necessary?  Oh, I don’t know.  Just the second worst grocery shopping experience, ever.
First worse was the one in the [...]

Lil’ monkey: I’m gonna need some help with one — no, two — no, three things.
Baba: What’s that, sweetie?
Lil’ monkey [Unfurling stubby little three-year-old fingers, one by one, as she talks]: One, you need to help me put my shirt on. Two, I need help opening the shirt drawer. Three, you need to [...]

Okay, well practically reading. Pre-reading all over the place. Sounding out early single syllable words! It’s pre- quasi- just about- reading madness over here!
On the calendar in the kitchen, we’re marking daily milestones in two different colors: in one color, words the big sister reads; in another, words the little brother utters. [...]

Begs the question, doesn’t it. SINCE I NEVER WANTED TO BE A PRINCESS AT ALL. Now a Prince, we can talk.
You’ll never guess which one of the above pictured items was checked out of the library when the lil’ monkey was there with Other People Who Shall Remain Nameless*, and which one was [...]