The other day Miles was poking my belly button so I recited a line about belly buttons from the Sandra Boynton book, From Horns to Toes. He looked up, crawled to the bookshelf, and pulled out the book. I was excited, but thought it might be a coincidence because it was sitting on top of the others. So called Jason in, and we proceeded to recite the first couple of lines from about 7 books in a row. As Miles pulled out each one correctly, we gave him big cheers and kisses. After the first two, he seemed to realize it was a game, but ever the cool cat, once he found the book he'd just hand it over to us like it was no big deal.
I think this may be a sign that Miles is inheriting Jason's penchant for memorization. When he was a kid he and his youngest brother could recite dialogue from entire movie scenes. We have one example on video - it's the scene from Jungle Fever when Samuel Jackson is trying to get Wesley Snipes to give him some money for drugs... "I'll do it, I'll do it, you know I'll do it." The video (recently transferred to DVD for posterity) was replayed at a family gathering this summer and later that afternoon I heard Jason's 8-year-old niece walking into the house saying, "I'll do it, I'll do it, you know I'll do it."
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aww, i'm so jealous, my memory is terrible, i can't even remember the lines from my daughter's favorite story book.
i've tried to recite from memory, cause she likes to hold it like she's reading it, where i can't see it.
but i'll skip lines and she'll say, Mommy! (reads the line) and i feel bad for missing lines!
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