How old were you when you first learnt how to whistle? Nathan's dad whistled alot, so Nathan learnt pretty early - sometime in primary school. Jo learnt in high school, but she can't whistle a tune - except for those consisting of one note.
Well, Owen whistled before he was 17 months old. We didn't teach him - he just accidentally did it one day... and kept doing it! Want proof? Click Here to see the video. He hasn't yet overtaken his mum - he too can only whistle one note...
We're very proud that our son has learnt this important life skill so early in life. Unfortunately this isn't a sign of universal genius or precociousness. Here's Owen trying to use a spoon at 15 months.
Maybe he's just a typical male. Low on manners, big on building things (and whistling while he works). Click here to see him stacking pretty well at 14 months... and then knocking them over again. Another male trait?
Do you remember the Bumbo? Owen doesn't need it to sit up anymore, but it's fun watching his method (learnt by trial and error) of getting into it. Have a look here. Again, his persistence is evident.
Finally, a trait most interesting. The stubborn insistence that he is right. We have been trying to teach Owen to call us mummy and daddy. He's happy to call Jo mum, but as far as he can tell, everyone calles Nathan "Naith". Because he often loses the last sylable when talking (final consonant deletion is the technical term), Nathan is simply "Nay". It doesn't matter how much we tell him, he refuses to call Nathan anything else! I guess this is quite an admirable characteristic in this case - since he is, in fact, right! We don't have a video of this yet, but we hope to put one in the next post.
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