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metaphortunate) wrote2014-09-22 09:37 pm
metaphortunate) wrote2014-09-22 09:37 pm
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My mother and I took the kids out to dinner tonight.
Sitting at the next table on the patio were a group of people with a number of small dogs in doggy football jerseys. They looked at the 12-month-old, with his toothless grin, who cannot speak English, feed himself properly, or stand up without holding on to things; and then they looked at the 3-year-old, three times his age, who speaks in complex sentences, walks for blocks, pretends to be an airplane, pours his own water, butters his own bread, and cuts his own meat; and then they asked me if they were twins.
Non-parents, I know it's just three short years since I left your ranks, but you are hilarious.
Sitting at the next table on the patio were a group of people with a number of small dogs in doggy football jerseys. They looked at the 12-month-old, with his toothless grin, who cannot speak English, feed himself properly, or stand up without holding on to things; and then they looked at the 3-year-old, three times his age, who speaks in complex sentences, walks for blocks, pretends to be an airplane, pours his own water, butters his own bread, and cuts his own meat; and then they asked me if they were twins.
Non-parents, I know it's just three short years since I left your ranks, but you are hilarious.
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Granted, Magpie's almost 3, and very verbal, but...she's not 5, doesn't look 5, doesn't act 5, and Sunshine is and does. I ain't know.
Harimad here
(Anonymous) 2014-09-24 12:13 pm (UTC)(link)Re: Harimad here
that the 6" taller child with more complex sentences and much clearer pronunciation is just THAT MUCH MORE ADVANCED, or that he's older? Like. Occam's Razor that stuff, fellow humans
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