I’m going to really have to start watching what I say and do in front of Button. She’s getting too smart for my own good. Last night she was playing with her shoes while I made a mess in her room (sifting through clothes to resell) and just on a whim I said, “Button, that’s you’re shoe. SHOE. Can you put it in the BUCKET?”

And she did.

She walked over to the bucket and dropped the shoe in. WHERE DID SHE LEARN THAT? I didn’t teach it to her. She just…KNEW what a bucket was, and how to put something in it.

Today she was holding a circular block that’s part of a Winnie the Pooh-mobile. I said, “Button, that’s the ORANGE. CIRCLE. Do you know where it goes?” And before I could ramble on with “Let’s go put the ORANGE. CIRCLE. where it goes,” she had walked over to the Pooh-mobile and inserted the block into its specifically shaped hole.

The child, she is psychic. The mother, she is baffled.

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