Samuel gave himself a school assignment yesterday: to write a book. He had been playing with a stapler, and when I went to take it away from him, he talked about making a booklet. Fair enough, I thought, why not staple some pages together so he'd have plenty of space for drawing.
The results stunned me. He carefully numbered each page, and used a variety of printing and cursive styles to write the text. On the front he wrote, in clear letters, A Book-let, with the hyphen at the end of a line. Inside, he used cartoon bubbles to indicate spoken language and drew several people that would have to be considered age-appropriate drawing.
I'm beginning to think that he absorbs just about everything he sees -- different ways of writing, the way a book page is presented, the "talking" from Calvin and Hobbes. As he develops skills, this memory has a way to come out.
We're seeing the same thing with his talking -- as he develops a bigger vocabulary and more complex speech-patterns, he's able to share more of his memories. Yesterday, he started talking about a trip we had taken last spring. He remembered the barbecue we ate on the way down, the hotels we used for two overnight stops enroute, just detail after detail.
Oh to improve the access to that brain!
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