Mr D was a very intelligent little boy.
He had such finely developed motor skills, it was so impossible to believe. His favorite thing to do was to take apart pens and put them back together. He could use any tool you put in front of him to make (or more accurately) tear apart anything!
He loved to take apart almost anything. But he seemed to have a special fascination with vacuum cleaners! He would continually take them apart, and then put them back together again over and over. After about the 10th time, he would start loosing parts. After about the 12th time, they would no longer work! We started buying the same brand of vacuum cleaners over and over, hoping that the parts he lost could be salvaged from another one, but he was never considerate enough to loose a different part!
He knew how to sing his ABC song, and could recognize his name. He knew the sounds that most of the letters made, and could recognize simple words. He was well on the track (at 2 years old) of being just as smart as his older sister.
He had a smile that was infectious. To see that little smile would brighten up the whole room. Even when he was angry, that smile would show through. He told me his day care teachers told him he was a fox. I asked him why, and he said it was cause he was sly like a fox...then he asked me what sly meant...I told him it meant handsome. He was quickly turning into a spoiled little boy. No one could deny that smile. No matter what, he would flash that smile and you melted!
He also had a unique ability to vomit on command. A very strange ability to say the least, but from a small toddler, he was known to have a unique way of showing his displeasure at something you did. As he got older, it became a bit of a problem, so I started telling him if he threw up he had to clean it. Amazing, but he was able to grasp that concept at about the age of 18 months.
So, my strange beautiful baby boy was the brightest light in the room. How could we not but love him!
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