My kid's smarter than your kid!

So ever since Benjamin’s arrival Keely has started pretending to be a baby A LOT. It’s not something I especially like and in fact it drives me crazy! Anyway, when she acts like a baby she kind of makes this squishy little face, flails her arms around, and says “ah, ah” over and over again. I don’t know if I’m giving the description justice but it gets old real fast. So this last week we were in the grocery store and the check out lady starts talking to Keely. At first she asks her a couple questions to which Keely answers “Ah, Ah” all the while making this silly face and flailing her arms. I notice the lady gets a little uncomfortable and then talks more gently and slowly to Keely. On the way out I was puzzling over this woman’s change in her interaction with Keely when I suddenly realized (and I’m pretty sure I’m right) that the cashier actually thought Keely was retarded!

Later this same week we go to a new art class that I just enrolled Keely in. Because the class is only 45 minutes long most the parents just drop their kids off in class and then sit out in the hall and visit until it’s over. So I’m sitting in the hall talking with some moms about the pros and cons of putting your child in Kindergarten when their birthday is close to the cut-off point. One woman is pretty adamant that the best thing to do is wait and I start saying that I think Keely will do just fine even though she’ll be one of the younger students in her class. I then go on to talk about what a great vocabulary Keely has, how smart she is, etc…you get the picture. So class is over, out comes Keely and over comes this woman with her daughter. She bends down and introduces her daughter to Keely and then asks her a couple questions like, “How old are you?” to which Keely responds “Ah, Ah!”- arms flailing, tongue hanging out. By this point I’m more than ready to go so we’re quickly saying our goodbyes when this woman leans in and quietly says, “I would really think about holding off a year.” Aaahhh!