Watch and Parker

Parker has been wearing my watch for the last month or so. He likes the light feature and enjoys being able to press it in the middle of the night or under water. I've been wearing an old one of Michael's that is suppose to be for triathlons.

Over the last few days, the watch hasn't been working. (Or so I thought.) Every day it was a different time than the real time. I would take it off his arm, correct the time and give it back. Every day.

Then yesterday, I noticed again that the time was off (about 20 minutes slow as usual) and started to take it off his arm. He said, "I can do it!" and then proceeded to set his own watch. Not only did he understand what buttons to push, but he could actually push them properly even though they are tiny. It was unbelievable. I mean, come on. Setting a digital watch with all those modes and timer and features is hard for an adult.

Then today we were talking about how Daddy's birthday is next week. He immediately started messing with his watch. Then he showed me how it said "May" as the month. He said, "Look, it's the month of his birthday. I'll put it back to the right month now." And he did.

When we were about to read books before naps today, he was putting together the reading list. He put the last one on top saying, "This is the 7th to last one." Then he added, "Mommmy, when there are only 7 books, the 7th to last one is the 1st one."

Duh.