Scary Smart

Ethan's Baby GPS abilities are something well known and documented in our family.  If we go to karate he can tell us the minute we turn on to Airport Road.  If we venture out to Panera, he can spot it literally a mile away.  It is pretty delightful to listen to him ask us questions about where we are going and then a few weeks later have him put those answers into action and announce our destination well before we get there.

Recently though Ethan and I were riding back from karate when I decided to ask him about his X-Men-level ability.  His answer stunned me and proved, beyond a doubt, that Ethan is one smart little booger.  Here is how this conversation went:

Me: Hey Beeth, how do you figure out where we are going?
Beeth: Trees and Wires and Poles.
Me: What?
Beeth: Daddy I see the trees and wires and poles with wires.

After a second or two I figured out what he meant.  Because he is still a little dude, he can't really see all that well when in the back seat and jammed into a car seat his view is not great.  But he can see tree branches, electrical wires, and telephone poles.  The thing that really blows me away is that these aren't the most unique items to use to get your bearings.  I can only imagine the memory horsepower necessary for Beeth to figure out where we are going this way.  Even crazier?  He can do this when we are many, many miles away from home, as far away as Worcester. 

That's a lot of tree branches in a little guy brain. 
Tony Sculimbrene