parental pride

I was secretly worried that Sage was color-blind, because she can name and identify the colors blue, red, pink, black, white, and orange, but not purple, green, or yellow. So I hauled out my mommy-bible, What to Expect the Toddler Years, and found that the only thing wrong with Sage is that her mother is too damned demanding.

Listen-- according to the book, children from 28 to 30 months old (Sage is only 28 months old)...

should be able to:
-identify one picture by naming (Sage can identify dozens of pictures!)
-put on an article of clothing (Well, if you don't count putting both feet through one pant leg...)
-jump up (like it's going out of style, let me tellya. The bed is about to give way.)
-name six body parts (I think she knows all the body parts a non-biologist can be expected to know!)
-identify four pictures by pointing (Please. She was doing that ages ago.)

will probably be able to:
-identify four pictures by naming (Ha!)

may possibly be able to:
-draw a vertical line in imitation (Not only can she draw lines on her own initiative, she can even sketch a vaguely fish-shaped shark-- which is about as much as her mother can do.)
-balance on one foot for one second (Again, please. The only time limit on this is her level of boredom, not her balance.)
-identify a friend by name (She can name all her friends, TV and movie characters, even the guy who works at the construction site across the street.)

may even be able to:
-balance on one foot for two seconds (Again, ha!)
-identify one color (To think I was fretting that she could only point out six.)
-describe the use of two objects ("No, Mommy, toys are for playing; forks are for eating...")
-use two adjectives (She has a plethora of adjectives, including her self-created portmanteau word, 'heavigat', which presumably means really, really heavy and mabigat.)
-broad jump (somewhat alarmingly, into the swimming pool more often than not)

So she really is extremely advanced, which I probably should have known since most of the toys she likes are actually intended for three-year-olds. Did I already say that she's a genius?