What About Your Awesomesauce Kid?

TiffanyBerry

Ok guys.  I know we're all biased in favor of our kid.  So let's hear those stories of WHY your kid is super duper awesome.  What's something that your kid does/says that no other kids you know does/says that makes you think your kid is so great?  Bonus for pics!

Chapter79

Mine is the top reader in her class!  And she was just tested for fluency (how fast she reads) and sight words (which I knew she would get perfect on- unless it's a word I can't even pronounce, she can pronounce it).. I knew she was a fast reader, as she reads an entire big chapter book every night before bed.  But I loved seeing how fast!  I e-mailed her teacher for results, I cut off addresses and names.. here's the screenshot. 

I was stoked that she reads 165 WPM and the average for her grade is 100! 

So yeah, my kid is awesome.. and I'm bragging  She's so smart!  I'm so glad she loves to read.

KatieB19

I've been packing DH's lunch and leaving him notes on his napkins. Today I had DS write "hi dad" as the note. I've seen him do an uppercase H, I, and A (and a few others not relevant, but all uppercase). This is what he wrote. Super proud.  When did he learn how to do this???

TiffanyBerry

I was all ready to post mine, but said awesomesauce child was pretending to be a baby and was tired of me not paying attention to her any more. :P

Things that make her awesome:

- She's remarkably responsible for a nearly four year old.  yesterday, she played outside on the porch and in the garage while I made dinner.  I checked on her every five or ten minutes (ok, it was probably less than that, but still very independently), and windows were open so I could hear her if she needed me and we are on a quiet cul-de-sac.  But she was just super responsible and played with the bits of scrap wood in the garage (from the playhouse we're building) and the chalk on the porch.

- Did I mention she's remarkably responsible?  we were taking down a bush in the front yard and she wanted to work the lopers with me.  This is not an ideal too to use *with* a child.  So, I told her she could try the small ones (the pruning shears), explained the safety in that "mom is really serious" voice, and hovered for a clip or two, and then she was pretty much perfect with them clipping leaves off the bush for the next twenty minutes.

- No, really, that responsible thing.  When I ask her to put away her dishes (she has her own cupboard for her dishes) when we unload the dishwasher, she just does it.  Messily, but whatever, it's her own cupboard.

- She might get angry and want me to stay away from her, but she will - eventually - talk and be reasonable in a way some adults have trouble being.  The bush mentioned above gets in the way of me seeing when she's playing in the front yard, so I want it down.  I told her this, and asked if she wanted to plant flowers there with me.  She was all excited right up until the point I started cutting down branches, and then she got terribly upset.  "NO! You can't cut it down!"  When she wouldn't tell me why and got more upset, she ran inside and asked me not to come in.  A few minutes later, she had calmed down enough to talk, and so she and I went to the porch, where we could see the bush, but could sit down too, and I said "I have needs to meet regarding this bush, and you do to.  Let's talk about it and see if we can find a solution that meets both of our needs." I told her my need for visibility, and she said she needed the bush to hide behind during hide-and-seek!  So, I said "Well, what could we put there instead that would let me see, but you could still hide behind?"  She volunteers, almost without skipping a beat, "A smaller bush!  And I would just crouch down small behind it!"  Then I said, "What would you think about moving the blueberry bushes from the backyard to that spot?  Could you hide behind them?"  And she was all for it.  Now she's excited for this change.  One of my prouder mommy moments of the year, really.

- We also almost never have the "it's quiet, too quiet" thing going on.  When it happens she's either - sitting with her stuffed animals in bed because she was cold, cutting bits of paper that are hers, cleaning the bathroom sink repeatedly (because she gets to play with lots of soap bubbles), or something else more or less totally innocuous.

I told you I'm biased.

bloverde

He's just a sweet heart little cuddle bug. Lots of hugs and kisses. We bed share, so lots of snuggles. He's a book lover at 21 months. And even though he has a speech delay, I know he's smart. He's the kind of kid that will take apart my electronics one day just to see if he can put them back together if I don't watch out. He understands cause and effect remarkably well for his age.

MrsCodeMonkey

Many cute kids in this thread.

Mine is smart and cuddly. She has memorized whole books and "reads" to us. She says "I love you, my mommy" and completely melts me. She is a social butterfly too. At the last party we went to she had a little sidekick that followed her around. It was very cute.

meo34

All of your kids seem so sweet and interesting! Love the stories.

 

Here are mine:

- He is very emphatic to others

- He is not a follower.  He is confident in his choices and does not follow the crowd (even when he is made fun of, this happened the other day when a few of his classmate made fun of him and his friend during recess for a game they were playing and he just ignored them and kept playing with his friend) but conversely he respects a person in authority and listens well to the teacher

- He is a huge nerd like his mom and dad.  He loves math, geography and history.  We are planning a trip oversees and he was disappointed about one choice of destination.  At first I was like "Dude you are 8 and going to Europe, serious???" the he explained he was looking forward to seeing the worlds largest domed cathedral and knew all about who had built it and how it was a big mystery on the building technique.....what a geek....I love it.

 

- He is a great travelling buddy (see above) and goes to museums etc with us.

This is better way to start the day than why he is annoying lol...I need that after dealing with his morning grumpiness!

 

JackoftheBox

My kid is awesomesauce because is is the male version of me..... enough said. LMAO

scrappingcat

He loves to make our coffee in the morning!  He will run in the kitchen, put in the beans (or pod if we are using Nespresso) and get it running.

He is the most hilarious 5 year old I know.  He has tons of jokes and sayings that crack me up constantly.  He is also a huge snugglebug and sensitive boy which melts my heart.

Ago

My girl is an absolute charmer.  She has been sick all week and I took her to the doctor yesterday.  This is a new doctor for us, so she's only seen her for check-ups.  You could tell she really loved my girl, because she was so sweet to her and really recognized she didn't feel well, because she wasn't talking her ear off or showing off for her.

She is also an artist and really advanced in her class - especially with language and writing, even though she is one of the younger kids.  She is VERY social and headstrong.  DH and I joke that she's going to be the teen that gets everyone else drunk at parties (let's hope not!).  She wants to be a pasta-making princess when she grows up.

jellybean529

DD has an unreal amount of compassion. Example: The other night I was stressed out and exhausted and sick and I just lost my shit and snapped at her. I apologized after the fact and she told me, "It's okay. You have a lot to do." I told her yes, but she is the most important thing to me, and she grabbed my arm, patted my hand, and said "And you're the most important thing to me." 

She's super duper smart. She started reading simple words (dog, cat, mom, dad) at age 3 and is now the top reader in her class. 

She's a born leader. Sometimes she can be manipulative as hell, but she sure knows how to motivate someone to do something. 

She's incredibly accepting. My niece, who is her age (and in her class) has a cleft palette and a speech delay as a result. She's getting surgery to correct it, and when I told DD about it, she said, "Why? I don't want her to change, I love her just the way she is!"

She's resilient. In the past year, she's been through SO much: 

Three daycares (pre-K, her before/after school in MA, then her after school here in FL) 

Two school (MA kindergarten and FL kindergarten)

Two moves (we moved in June of last year to a new town in MA, then DH and I split in September and after he started planning to move out of state in December, we moved to FL in January to be near family)

Mine and DH's separation 

DH moving out but staying local 

DH moving out of state 

And a completely new living arrangement (I currently live with my sister and her two kids) 

...and somehow she is still happy and healthy. It took her about a month after we moved where we are now to settle in but now she's happier than ever. How, I don't know, because I'm almost 34 and all that chaos damn near broke me. She's amazing.

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He is super polite. Says please, thank you, sorry, and hands us stuff he thinks we need. Says, "ok mama?" If I stub my toe or something.
He's a super sweet, cuddly, mama's boy. Hugs and kisses all around.
He's always been advanced in language. He just turned 2 and he talks at closer to a 3 yr old level. This week he started saying "you do [this]" instead of "mama do [this]". Strings several word sentences together.
He's super curious and perceptive and asks us what everything is. I think he's going to be a scientist like his mama.