Brilliance in a small package.

This morning Jason and I had breakfast with two families from our ward. We had so much fun! It was great getting to know these families better. My favorite part was getting to play with the host family's two year old daughter.  

She is brilliant! Her name is Ruby. She told me how they went to see Wall-e in the "the-a-ter" and that she thought it was scary, but she did like it. She correctly identified her "bath friends," which are a "pelican, crabbie, dolphin, turtle, and octopus." She even told me what color each of them were!!! I was shocked and amazed at how smart she was! She has a mind of her own and you can certainly tell. She likes to line up her "bath friends" and have them facing all in the same direction. 

She knows when something is not right. If her mom brings her the "wrong" clothes to wear, she will tell her mom, "Those aren't right." So when her dad showed us her blanket trick we were dumbfounded.

She has a pink blanket and has a favorite corner. On one corner there is white embroidery and the corner straight through the blanket is her favorite corner. She can identify the "right" corner without having to see the white embroidery. If you turn the blanket around it is all pink, you show Ruby the corners and she can tell you which one is the "right" corner. 

Jason played this game with her for quite a while and tried to figure out how she could correctly pick her corner every single time. He would crumble the blanket up and only show her the edges, he would fold the blanket up and show her different corners at a time. He showed her two of the corners and asked her which one was the "right" corner and she said it wasn't either one of them. He had tried to trick her and didn't succeed. He looked closely at the corners and there were only tiny tiny little details that were different. The color was the same, it wasn't wet, Jason said there was tiny stitching differences and that Ruby must pay extremely close attention to detail and that's probably how she knows which corner is hers. 

Even Jason was fascinated by her and it's kind of hard to get Jason super interested in something. Anyways... I just thought it was so neat that she is so smart, and able to express herself to adults at two years old.