Einstein Syndrome

Gus is finally hitting his terrible twos! While he hasn't had an actual outright tantrum, he seems to be heading that way. He is still pretty easy to take care of, for a 2 year old little boy. He is still struggling with his speech and has a speech therapist visiting him weekly. While he has picked up a ton of words, he still isn't stringing together sentences. At most he says 2 words together. . . with his favorite word as "my".

"My Show!"
"My Truck!"
"My hot dog!" (oh wait, that is three words!)
"My bike!"
"My ball!"

Anyway, the speech therapist classified him as a Late Talker. This doesn't mean much since he is a boy and is only 2 1/2. The speech therapist mentioned something about Einstein Syndrome, but I don't think she was referring to Gus as actually having Einstein Syndrome. She just brought it up because she was reading a book about it. I googled Einstein Syndrome and here are the characteristics:

It is believed that these children talk late because parts of their brain are developing at a faster pace than other children, therefore, their language suffers. This is what they believe happened to Albert Einstein.

There are different aspects of these children's lives that seem to follow a pattern. The children are not social with peers, they are stubborn in nature, potty training usually happens later than other children, they are usually great analytical thinkers. Lastly, they come from the same parental background. Their parents, grandparents and aunts/uncles are in three various professions: musicians, mathematicians (analytical thinkers) and engineering. Most importantly, these children do not suffer from any underlying speech disorders. Their hearing is fine and they do not have motor skills that are affecting their speech. (http://www.squidoo.com/einsteinsyndrome).

Okay, so Gus fits none of the criteria. He is extremely social and he isn't stubborn at all. Gus hasn't even had a tantrum. As for potty training, he is 100% potty trained as far as pooping and has been for nearly 6 months. I'm not sure if he is an analytical thinker, but I know that I'm not a musician, or mathematician or engineer. His dad is jailbird, not an engineer. Gus doesn't have any hearing problems. But I like this explanation way more than any other, so I'll use it!

Gus in a Duck Towel

Working on the playground!

The little 2 year old fish

2 years 5 months old and jumping off the diving board!

Gus' skateboard, dude

Best $6 I ever spent

It's finally warm out here on the western slope! I know my east coast friends have had their air conditioning for a couple of months now. But while you've been soaking up the rays, I've been freezing my butt off. I swear its been rainy and 50s. I don't even think that I am exaggerating! Today was the first day that I was so hot that I finally let Gus play with the sprinkler toy I bought last winter on the clearance rack at Walmart. He's been coveting that thing since January! Here is Gus urging Pop-pop to just open the thing!

Oh! Finally Pop-pop got the rocket portion of the Toy Story 3 rocket out of the box. But you can see him in the background still trying to get the childproof box open (It's Pop-pop proof too!)

Gus is just as happy playing with the rocket. He ran around the yard making it fly. Poor Pop-pop. Still fighting with the box.

Here is the final product all set up and ready to go. Gus just loved playing with this new sprinkler. He played until I made him go into dinner. By the way you will hear him saying "Hi Paul!". That is our neighbor getting home from work. He was trying to yell hi to Paul and play with his new toy at the same time.