Important education for William

Greg seems slightly concerned that William is lacking education on a key front: US sports. He (Greg) repeatedly reminds me that when he was William's age, he already knew the helmets for the pro-football teams. I tried convincing Greg that William knows other useful things (like being able to distinguish the sound of the water truck engine from an auto truck engine, thereby being able to determine if it is worth it to run to the window to watch - he likes the water truck because it stops outside our building, but auto trucks generally motor by too quickly for him to get to the window in time), but Greg didn't buy my argument.

As a result, we spent time with William this morning on two important tasks:

1. Reading the sports page of our local paper. This means William will learn the key cricket players since, of the three pages in the sports section, fully two are devoted to cricket. We'll see how long it takes for William to recognize the faces of the Master Blaster (aka Sachin Tendulkar) and MS Dhoni, India's top two players. Or how long it takes him to identify the uniforms of the various national teams (today we talked about India, Pakistan and Australia).

2. Even more important, learning how to make the "hook 'em horns" sign with his hand. William only recently has had enough small motor control to hold up more than his thumb or first finger. Holding up the first and pinky finger simultaneously was quite a challenge, but after about 20 minutes he was almost there. I think he should have it perfected by the time Nana and Grandpa Bob visit in December - Gmo and Grandpa Tod will have to help him practice when they visit.