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This morning, Alex pointed at a picture in one of her books and said, "Giraffe!"

It was a brachiosaurus.

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You do know she's brilliant, right?

Aw, come on! She was off by millions of years. ;-)

*laughs* Yes, but so were the scientists for lots longer than Alex will be. ;)

Pattern recognition is an amazing thing.

Fourteen months old and already a big smartypants. By the time she hits three, you guys will have to lock up any books you aren't ready for her to be reading yet!

Linnea says it's a "cog". Er.

I'm more impressed with Alex :)

Sammy looks at dinosaurs and growls. But she also does it for bears and lions. She can't say sheep, but does say "Baa" if you ask what a sheep says. Why are animal noises the first thing they learn?

But you need to teach "What does the raven say?" "Nevermore" and "What does the computer say?" "Crash!"

Oh, you're evil! I *like* you!

And I have video evidence that my sister taught my nephew, "What does the Canadian say?" "Eh!"

I'm married to a Canadian..."eh" will probably be among our children's first words.

Once during a round of "What does the [animal/thing] say" I asked my oldest son "What does Grandma say?" His answer was "Get out of my garden!" Grandma (all 39 years of her ripe old age) was highly amused.

Reminids me of my brother & I teaching Charlie (now 13), "What sound does the dog make.", and he'd bark. "What sound does the cat make?", and he'd mew. "What sound does the cow make?" (They live on a dairy farm), and he'd moo. "What sound does the rat make?", and he'd point to the ceiling of their trailer 'cuz that where they scrambled around.

Of course, our favourite was, "What sound does Cathulu make?"

Hee! That is so awesome! :)

It's funny about the brachiosaurus/giraffe confusion--Tamsin had a sleeper that was my husb& and my favorite (it was blue and green and made her look adorable) and it had an embroidered cartoon giraffe-like creature on it. Except, the giraffe-like creature was blue green with non-giraffelike spots, and kinda looked a lot more like a dinosaur. So we called it her "giraffe-osaurus" sleeper. She recently outgrew the giraffe-osaurus sleeper, which made us very sad.

Was it from Carter's? I think Alex might have had that sleeper too. And

kcobweb's EB.

I think it was! :)

Depending on how sad, you could cut out the giraffe-osaurus and appliqué it onto another sleeper. This process has the advantage of being repeatable. When she's too old for sleepers (and who ever is) you can frame it and hang it up.

Of course, if you handed down the sleeper to someone smaller than Tamsin, you're out of luck.

That is brilliant! Maybe I should just cut it out and make a pillow out of it for her. Embroider "Giraffe-osaurus" on it, or something.

I think that would be a great idea for a line of pillows with unidentifiable animals on them. After the giraffe-osaurus, I could do one of the critter on her mobile that might be a goat, that we've been calling the "Farmyard Phanatic."

Great idea! :)

Glad you like it!

Well, be fair, brachiosaurus is just a really hard word. I'm sure she knows it, but like Porky Pig trying to get out "Goodbye", she eventually had to resort to something easier. Smart girl.

(Hi. I found you via Making Light. I like your blog a lot.)

At Alex's age, Sara used to point at a picture of a caterpillar and say, "DY-NO-SAUR!"

At age two, if Mark had called a brachiosaurus a giraffe and I had corrected him, he would have answered: "It's LIKE a giraffe."

Smart girl, that Alex. But then we never really expected else, did we?

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