Thursday, November 06, 2008

Hail to the Chief?

We have video footage of Gehrig, who is three, at his second birthday party rattling off all forty-three presidents. I'm not saying he's particularly smart -- kids are wired to learn at a ridiculous pace, and Gehrig is already light years behind his kid brother in the useful, common-sense kind of smart -- but that's the kind of smart he is and it's been a riot (in kind of a creepy way) over the past couple years to watch this flaky wisp of a child recognize the Millard Fillmore and Benjamin Harrison biographies as we've pulled them out of the mail together.

So we're watching the election Tuesday night and I say to the boy, "You're gonna have to learn another president after tonight, Buddy. There's gonna be a new one." And his eyes get big and hopeful like only a child's can and he says, "Is it Boba Fett?"

3 Comments:

Blogger Greg said...

Nice to see your stuff in my RSS folder again. :-) Our Alex was like that, but with NFL teams. It is crazy amazing. And the things they say... just hilarious. 2-4 is a super fun stretch!

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Blogger dana said...

awesome. love that kid (even though he's smarter than me)!


(YYYYYAAAAAYYYYY for a new blogity-blog!)

4:42 PM  
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