You know that saying "What do you get someone who has everything?" well my question is "What can you teach someone who seems to know everything?" Big Bird has been ahead of the game her whole life. She is wickedly smart and even more wickedly honest. These are things that I love so much about her but they are also the two hardest things to work with. When she started taking guitar lessons I didn't think she'd stick with it. She's always been more of the math and science type of girl. Sure she liked to color but Big Bird has never been able to color "freely" coloring outside lines is not something she can fully comprehend. To her she thinks "Why would anyone want to color outside the lines?" instead of thinking to herself "Wow this color would look so nice over here instead."  And to me music is nothing but coloring outside the lines. Taking it from the heart instead of the head. But as she always does Big Bird surprised me and fell in love with the guitar. Though as most things I think she may take it a little to seriously and I find myself having to tell her to relax, just have fun, you're learning, it takes time, I also find myself once again saying "Damn it, is there nothing she can't do."

To really understand what I mean I am going to have to tell you about the time she left my husband and I speechless for a good full day. Or rather the first time because it certainly wasn't the last time. At our very first duty station there was a BX that had a very large satellite on top of it and neither my husband nor I really paid much attention to it because it really wasn't something you would pay attention too. That is until the day that we were walking hand in hand with Big Bird playing airplane and counting to three before lifting her up off the ground, her feet to fly in the air and then come back down with soft words of "Again, Again." to follow.  Then out of the blue instead of "Again, again." Big Bird said very plainly and matter of fact. "Mama that's a satellite receiver. It gets information from a big satellite that is up in space. What do you think they are receiving right now?"
She was not yet three. I told her I didn't know, I had never thought about it...which come to think about it is often my response to her questions as it seems more and more as she gets older her questions have only gotten harder and more obscure. And I have even less of an answer for her now than I did then. So my question is...What do you teach your child when they seem to already be smarter than you?