Regardless, Selina is a Little Genius

Selina really has some kind of language gift.  She is hard to understand, but she says the most amazing things.  "I need help" she'll say, handing me a toy with a lid she wants me to open.  I open it, hand it back, and she closes it, hands it to me again and says "I need help again!"  Really, every word.

Yesterday, I was trying to put my finger on why she sounds so weirdly precocious to me lately.  Then I realized that she has leapt from using all proper nouns to using pronouns...correctly.  She went straight from, "Selina do it!" or "Mama Shannon sit down!" to "I do it!" and "you sit down!" No you-me confusion for her, no way.  Today, she was playing with the drawing board and she wrote some scribbles with a flourish and declared, proudly, "Selina!" and grinned up at me.  "You wrote Selina?" I asked her.  "Yes, Selina!" she confirmed, "it's me!" and pointed to herself.  (Mind you, she didn't really write her name.)  Then she pointed at me and said "you're Mama Shannon!, I'm Selina!"

This morning, Cole had to go to work (out of town) and Selina was devastated at her leaving.  She was crying and carrying on and I was comforting her.  "I need Cole-Mom!" she cried.  "I need Mama Shannon and Cole-Mom!"

She's not even two yet.  Tomorrow, she'll be 23 months old.  She's amazing.  There are two of them.  What am I gonna do with two of them???

Comments

[hingly]

Take over the world.

[Jody]

Have tons of fun

[Lula]

You are going to have your mind blown on a regular basis, and you are all going to rock the world together.

I agree that Selina has an excellent grasp of language, regardless of whether or not she's currently intelligible. I bet she'll excel in creative writing and learning new languages!

[Skye]

That's amazing, my son is 20 months next week and I would be shocked if he got to where she is in 3 more months, even though he's very good at language. You are going to have your hands quite full!

[Donita]

I am crying as I write, as you know how HUGE that is (and it hits so close to home), especially for our family. GO SELINA!