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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Mom // February 3, 2010 at 12:17 pm |
Brings to mind something my own mother shared with us. She was looking at photographs with my brother (he was about two). He looked at a picture of himself on a beach, shoveling sand into a pail. The background of the picture was the lake. There were no other people in the picture. He started crying hysterically. When my mother finally got him to stop and tell her what was the matter, he said: “Why did you leave me alone on the beach and not bring me home?”
Dan & Becky // February 4, 2010 at 5:15 pm |
And thus begins the long and confusing parental journey of amazement that your child will remember what someone randomly said 6 months ago, while forgetting what you just told him. Twice. Within the last 5 minutes. At the top of your lungs.