The One About Inori

I admit. This is a post where I’m going to brag. But it’s my blog. And I can brag all I want. LOL.

Today Sunshine was playing with her globe. Now Nad has taught her before where Australia is on the globe and we have not played with the globe for quite a few months now.

Out of curiosity to see if she remembers, I asked her, “Sunshine, where do you live?”

And she pointed to the shape of Australia.

Lulu turned the globe so that Australia faced away from her. And we asked her again. She used her finger to turn the globe until she saw Australia and again, pointed to it.

We did this about 5 times. And she pointed to the right continent every single time!

She can also point out on her toys ‘A’ and ‘B’. She recognises in her books, things like ‘table’, ‘comb’, ‘brush’, ‘dog’, ‘cat’ etc etc. She often brings her book to these objects in real life and points to them while pointing back at the book.

She often wakes up without a peep and would crawl off the bed, walk out of the room and join us in the next room. She’s often in all smiles when she wakes up. Which is unusual because most babies I know wake up grouchy/ grumpy/ crying.

However, we have to make sure that the toilet door is firmly shut as she might wander into it when she wakes up and we wouldn’t be alerted since she’s so quiet.

She also follows me to the kitchen every morning where I prepare her milk. She will be so thrilled and would rush back into the bedroom, climb up the bed and lie on her back, in anticipation of her morning feed.

This morning, Lulu woke up and walked past our room and said “Hi!” to Sunshine. She looked at Lulu, thought for a moment and replied, “Hi!”

We were so amazed and asked her to repeat. She was bashful and refused to repeat.

She also does many many things that amaze us. She points to Kelly and says “tat!” (cat!) and yesterday while Nad was giving her a shower, she said, “water!”

She loves to pick books out of the bookshelf, sit herself on our laps and urge us to read to her. (But her attention span is also very short and would walk off before we are even halfway through the story!)

She would play with the puzzle ball and with each and every shape she successfully drops in, she would clap her hands. (Self praise!)

The cheeky little bugger tugged on Lulu’s hair while Lulu was still in bed and she inched backwards, watching Lulu’s reaction. After taking a few steps backwards and satisfied that Lulu was still asleep, she went forward and tugged at her hair again!!!

My mum said that both Lulu and I were able to say many more words than Sunshine when we were her age. I was worried about her speech too but then I thought about it and realised that most geniuses do not speak until they were much older. Hee hee hee.

Maybe Sunshine is a genius in the making?