Learning Machine

This was Miles first week of school. All went well with the exception of the pouting in the corner that apparently happened when toys were not readily available, a small glitch in the life of an only child. But a few weeks of structure will hopefully change that.

Last night, we were all hanging out in the family room when Miles stopped playing and came up to me with his "thought for the day":
"mikeywa"
To which I replied, "What was that honey?"
Miles - "mikeywa"
Again my reply, "I don't understand.........Mickey Mouse?"
Miles - "no, mikeywa"
Me - Long pause......
Miles again - "mikeywa, in da guy"
Me - Another long pause......
Me - "Are you saying, Milky Way?"
Miles - "Yeah, in da guy! Mikeywa, in da guy!" and he runs over to the sliding glass door and points up to the stars in the sky and repeats himself again.
"Are you saying 'Milky Way, in the sky'?"
"Yeah" and he taps his pointed finger on the glass again.

Completely overwhelmed by his stroke of genius, I googled "milky way" in Google Images with Miles on my lap and of all the pictures that came up, this is the one he pointed at:

Miles - "Ya, dat da mikeywa mama! In da guy!"

I quickly called Chris over and we both took a few moments to be stunned by our little Einstein and then were sharply brought back to reality when we posed the question,
"Where did you learn that?"
The return answer was, "I dunno".
Us - " Did you learn that in school?"
Miles - blank stare
Us - "Was that something you learned in school?"
Miles - shoulder shrug - proceeds to turn around and walk back to toys as we are apparently boring him now.
Okay, so he's still almost 3 but it's good to know that there is smart kid in there somewhere. The only thing that confuses me is where he really did learn that, since the theme this week at school was "Dinosaurs" and he clearly recognized the Milky Way from the pictures......hmmmmm! It will continue to remain a mystery.