What We Maybe DON'T Know About Our Kiddos

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Greetings ya'll,

I started to title this post " A Boy+His Vtech Camera+HSM3 " but in light of

Lori's 911 post decided to change it. I am hoping that my post encourages

further " stories " because IMHO, all of our kiddos know things/how to do

things/etc that we may not know they know. (yikes what a sentence-hope it is

conveys what I mean)

Sometimes in our daily struggles with " life stuff " we might have the tendency to

overlook or just not see or not registar something(s) that are insanely

remarkable about our kiddos. Maybe it is something subtle yet still insanely

remarkable.

Case in point: I posted about a vtech camera that my child received at Xmas.

Which he has used constantly & constantly shows us each thing he has filmed to

the point that we just go " uh huh-cool " without really looking past the goofy

sounds or actions portrayed. Because we are human & a bazillion times a day is

brain melting-eyeball bleeding inducing...

Today, after hearing thuds in his room, I suggested to DJ that he take his

camera outside while it was still sunny & play basketball.

He took it & his little cd player & did his thing while I was doing mine.

Then he came in & (of course)wanted me to watch the video he had made.

So I actually did watch the whole thing. And guys, I was stunned.

He had synchronized the HSM3 cd, then synchronized every move he made to the

song on the cd. High School Musical 3 has played enough in this house for me to

recognize that DJ was making EVERY SINGLE move that Troy does in a basketball

scene. And I mean perfectly-from the anguish to the hair toss to the chest

thump to the fall to the basketball moves.

So I act very excited & praise him on his skills-he then trots back outside & I

notice he is not playing basketball. He comes back in & wants me to watch his

video again. This time it is the dance moves in a scene from HSM3 that Troy

does-again synched to the music on the cd. Verbatim again.

I realize that this may not be on par with knowing to call 911 or telling a

teacher that they are gonna put a curse on them. But DJ cannot talk (with

clarity)which makes it almost impossible to guage what he does " know " about so

many things.

But. I think he just showed me that I was correct in thinking that he memorizes

everything somehow.

And I think that all those " re-winds " of videos & CD's & DVD's actually have a

purpose besides stimming or driving us crazy.

I had an instant memory of when we finally got a tv & vcr & toddler DJ watching

Barney over & over. Trying to jump like Barney. Twirling with Barney. And

later doing all these moves without a tv on.....

Food for thought.

Methinks I will indeed watch every video he brings me from now on.

Kris, the shamed & astonished one