My son has hit most of his milestones early. Held his head up the day he was born. Mastered rolling over back to front & front to back by 4 months. Sitting by five months. Most parents would be through the moon, bragging, excited for how advanced their offspring is. Not me. I know what all this early business means. Number one, they all even out anyway and he will do something else painfully late. More importantly, the amount of time that I am able to sit him down in a room, come back and he will still be there playing with the age appropriate toy I left him with will be short. And they were. At 7 months he was crawling. But really, he just uses crawling as a means to an end. His main goal is to get to the thing he has decided he wants to pull himself up on. Coffee table, the dishwasher, the dog. Anyone who has seen his moves say something like this "My kid/grandkid/nephew/friend's kid was like that and they walked at 10 months." It's always 10 months. Not 11, not 9, but ten months. So, I possibly have 2 more months until my job gets much harder.

My kid is also the one who likes to stick everything in his mouth. Yes, I know all kids like to do this...but El Beaner is special. He may do things early physically, but here is what he was doing while I was typing the first paragraph

And goes back to licking the wall. Yes, he is my kid alright!