The Color Purple

Amanda's vocabulary is growing daily. I still can't understand half the things she says, but she's saying a lot more and even trying to make sentences. She's also starting to learn her colors. Well, at least one color, purple. I think she got this from Sarah. Purple is one of Sarah's favorite colors.

Every time I give her a vitamin I ask her what color she wants. She always replies purple. Of course that doesn't mean that she really knows what color purple is. So, one time I gave her a yellow one instead to see if she knew that it wasn't purple. Oh, she knew, and she got really mad at me for trying to switch them out.

Another time she wanted to wear a head band of Sarah's, so I got out the container we keep them in and asked her what color she wanted to wear. She went straight for the purple one and said purple.

So I'm starting to think my kid's a genius. I honestly don't remember when the other two started learning their colors, but I don't think it was this early. My smart, smart baby. Not so fast. One day I held something up and asked her what color it was. I think it was white. Her response, purple.

Okay, so she definitely knows purple when she sees it, she just doesn't know any names of any other colors. That's still good, right? Not really. When we were visiting my parents we went to the museum with my friend, Cindy, and her kids. Her son, Griffin, is 18 months old. He walked up to the toy with all these colored balls on it and started naming off the colors. Blue, red, yellow. Holy crap! Not only did he know more than Amanda, but he's four months younger than she is.

So she's no genius, just right on track. Or maybe even a little behind. That's okay too. Being the third kid, I don't spend a lot of one on one time teaching her colors and numbers or letters. However she does have Andy, Sarah and me to teach her the ways of the world that a lot of kids her age don't experience because they are the first or second. I'm okay with that, she has plenty of time to learn her colors.

Except for purple, she's got that one down.