Genius?

Yesterday, while shopping, a speech pathologist overheard Jennifer and Nicholas talking to each other and was astounded by what she heard. Jen asked, and Nicholas answered, many questions for the pathologist, who could hardly believe Nicholas was only 20 months old. She told Jennifer that Nicholas, in her opinion, was a genius, and that he should be tested. She took our number and said she'd get back to us. We'll keep you posted...

-Pete

Real Sentences

Nicholas, for the past couple of weeks, has been forming longer sentences. He's gotten better with pronouns and knows, for example, the difference between he, she, me, you, ours, and yours. He's also learned the tenses of some words, so that he knows to ask, "how did you sleep?" but will answer, "I slept good." (we'll work on the use of "well" instead of "good" later!).

Nicholas has the ability to remember the answers to silly trivia (like the first president, the current president, the president that freed the slaves, etc.) as well as real information, such as some simple math questions, his age, his birthdate, and his eye

Pete

Nicholas was sick last week.

We were so busy that I did not have a chance to post any information about Nicholas' being sick last week. He started with bronchialitis, which may be seasonal for him (he had that almost a year ago to the day) and it led to high fevers (up to 105 degrees a few nights). Our doctor monitored Nicholas' progress each day and eventually, he fully recovered. Unrelated: Nicholas started becoming more comfortable with his pediatrician, Dr. Broillet. After a few days of seeing him each day, Nicholas started acting like himself and he eventually talked up a storm at the office. The doctor and his partner commented that Nicholas spoke like no other 19 month-old baby either had ever seen.