Today Parker An Became More Human
I made a similar post when Parker An became proficient at walking. Well, yesterday Parker made an intellectual move into human-ness.
Yesterday, Parker pretended. He grasped something that is so fundamentally human it is exciting to think about it in-and-of-itself.
He was playing with an empty plastic cup. Then, he found some fluff that Lexi had extracted from one of her toys and he played with that for a few minutes and brought me some to see. A few minutes later he was playing with the cup and the fluff. He was pretending that the fluff was something to drink. He put the fluff into the cup and then acted as if he were drinking it - tilting the cup up until the fluff hit his nose. Then, he’d take the fluff out and start over. He shook his head yes when I asked if he was drinking.
It was really amazing to watch. We celebrated by clapping.
May 13th, 2008 at 12:39 AM
WOW! Parker sounds like he is on the fast track! He is young to be showing that kind of abstraction.
Kristi
[Reply]
Jonathan reply on May 13, 2008:
Yeah, maybe a few months earlier than I’d expect it. But, I don’t think he’s gonna be any kind of whiz kid - though, I wouldn’t mind a biology genius in the family!
[Reply]