The long-term memories won’t solidify for another couple years, but Sam has started to remember things for longer periods of time. Yesterday we were playing with play-doh and he asked me to make Gumby. He only knows who Gumby is because Grandma had a figurine he played with several weeks ago. For over a week after we left Wisconsin, he was asking to go downstairs to play with Reed (who lives in Wisconsin and NOT in an apartment downstairs from us). When he sees pictures of himself playing with his cousins in Maggie’s and Rosie’s room, he says “Get down, Reed!” (Reed was climbing on Rosie’s bed withouth permission). He even occasionally still talks about firecrackers (“Boom, up in the sky”), which he experienced in Oklahoma in late November. It’s strange and amusing to us to see these memories resurface–his little brain is working hard to retain all this information!
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