He's doing some very cool things, learning-wise. He can count to twenty in french, he can name the continents by having them pointed out on a map, and, as I discovered this morning at breakfast, he can tell me numbers up to 100 by having me ask, "What's a 3 and a 5?" "What's a 6 and a 2?" Let me tell you, that one floored me. I didn't know he could do that, and if you'd asked me yesterday, I would have said that he couldn't. Having no idea what normal milestones are, I don't know if he's doing brilliantly well, but I'm just going to assume that he is.
It's also very nice to see that he's socializing just as well as we'd hoped. He listens well to the teachers and he seems to interact appropriately with the other kids. He's quite cottoned on to one boy in particular name Mihir. I know they're friends because, when they're both getting ready to leave for the day, they call each other names. As any boy will tell you, that's what you do with friends. (I can't imagine where he might have learned it... *whistles innocently*) Having a 3-year-olds vocabulary but a normal desire to call people names ends up with some interesting epithets being thrown around (with giggles): "Bye, monkey!" "Bye, boothead!" "Bye, dragon eyeball mud!" "Bye, earfacehead!"
I am much pleased.
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