Saturday, June 17, 2006

Xander Skywalker?

So Xander is your typical two-year old... definitely a bit advanced in his language skills (to our continual amusement and amazement), but although he sometimes gets the usage of "I/me" vs. "you" right, he's still working at it - and we're so impressed with him and he's so bright, that we know he will get it 100% correct with time.

However, our friend Lauren Shearer offered some insight into Xander's first vs. second person pronoun usage the other day, after hearing Xander say "you all done?" when he was eating lunch. This is his way of letting us know that he's finished.

Lauren said -- "ah, Jedi mind trick"

And we promptly busted a gut because he is probably right... I haven't noticed X waving his hand when he does it, but it certainly works on his weak-minded parents...

He demonstrated the mind trick again later that day (and does it dozens of times daily) when we were reading a book with a picture of an ice cream truck in it. He looked up at us and said "you want ice cream?" and we, of course, repeated "you want ice cream?" back to him - to which he promptly replied "ok!"

...and here we thought he was only being two - when in fact he is obviously of Jedi bloodline, communing with midi-chlorians, and imposing his will on his oblivious parents.