My baby sister (OK, so she’s 30, not exactly a baby anymore) stumbled across the following in my 3-year-old nephew’s room today:

“STOP” has long been Brendan’s favorite word to write. He first wrote it, out of nowhere with absolutely no prompting, when he was 2, complete with the octagon-shaped sign. We were all quite impressed.

He’s evidently going to keep on wowing us with his creativity and imagination as he grows. I mean, come on . . . I can’t write/draw even close to that well, nor would it have ever occurred to me to attempt to create letters like that. Ever. I guess this is yet another illustration of how differently we are all wired.

I’m as excited about Brendan’s artistic abilities as I was when Logan put all the tiny pieces into a Perfection game at the age of 2, much more quickly than I ever could. Some of those shapes are so similar, it’s hard to tell what goes where. He’s going to be an engineer! I congratulated myself.

Yes, I am supremely untalented at many things, as you may have gathered from this post, which, I suppose, makes me easily impressed by that which I cannot do. Having said that, it’s so cool to see a kid’s personality and talents emerge, especially when they’re vastly different from your own.

Does your child have a special talent or gift? Let’s hear about it!