I am fairly sure my sister knew the difference between pink and purple very early. I believe she's bright,but I also thought this was the age when kids vary so widely. I think my 3 year old nephew is a little behind in language skills, but I think it is because he speaks a mixture of Japaneses and english. sentence structure is a bit more complex when you hear two languages.

I'm in the lame club with Lee and Betsy!My life just lack co-ordination this weekend

My claim to fame is that I can't draw a straight line with a ruler

My grade school art teacher yelled at us for having horribly imperfect "straight" lines. Mine still suck. It's why I prefer drawing people to buildings any day.

This is why the first time I drew a straight line with typesetting equipment was an orgasmic experience.

We had a quarter of "architectural drawing" in 8th grade, and as far as I remember, we never got to drawing a straight line, because none of us could pass out of writing the alphabet in graph paper.

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My understanding is that IQ tests are comparative to others your age, and it doesn't sound impressive to me that she's a 152 compared to other two-year-olds. Though I don't know how/why they have a ready range for two-year-olds. I worry about her becoming insufferable though-- sounds like she's halfway there.

Today is a sad day-- Bob is leaving tomorrow to teach in A2 for the summer, and he'll be in Notre Dame for a post-doc after that. So y'all will be seeing more of me!

Today is a sad day-- Bob is leaving tomorrow to teach in A2 for the summer, and he'll be in Notre Dame for a post-doc after that. So y'all will be seeing more of me!

What?! Bob and bon shouldn't be separated by such vast geographic space. They need to be contiguous!

Oh no! I'm sorry to hear about the impending separation, bon.

I'm bound and determined to tackle the second bedroom today. I must attempt to set up the crib before I forget how. That means moving everything around. Sigh.

That does suck, bon. I hope there are many many visits planned.

I need to get off my butt, and the sofa, and go run errands. I would have thought that the Apple store and a book store would be enough to get me motivated, but it would seem not.

Just watched an episode of Graham Norton. Watched it because Orlando Bloom was appearing, but was totally enchanted by Samantha Morton. She's so fucking regular--it's hysterical. Graham's a hoot. Not a weekly sort of a hoot, but bully for him for making the fun fag image profitable. He's certainly working it.

I watched an ep last night, with Jon Bon Jovi and Joanna Lumley. Hilarious, but I got the feeling that his schtick would get old after a bit.

Drawing the perfect circle was the only thing that sounded exceptional to me. Two year olds don't generally have the fine motor skills for that.

I'm probably bringing my own prejudices as an artist to that. I was drawing at two, and a very round circle sounds hard but not undo-able to me for that age. (Would that whole body coordination had developed along with the finger dexterity—I'm still clumsy on my feet!)