Smartie Pants

I've always known Luke was smart, but last night I realized he is smarter than I think. He is so quiet, I know it's hard for his teachers to know what he is capable of learning too.

Last night his uncle Matthew started explaining to Luke how he cut and broke his finger and the medical science of how his hand was healing. Matthew was going on in really great detail how your body heals itself and what doctors do to aide the healing. Luke (as usual) was completely focused on each word he said. Luke loves learning from Matthew (the last talk they had was on DNA).

As Matthew got to the part about his stitches, he told Luke the stitches are a special type of stitch his body can eat. Then he started explaining something about the white blood cells eating the stitches. Luke raised his hand and said, "Yeah, they are neutrophils right?"

The rest of us in the room started laughing because none of us even knew what neutrophils were. My dad commented that, up until then, he thought Matthew was completely boring Luke.

Matthew kept teaching Luke and talking to him about all sorts of things related to his hurt finger. He started talking to Luke about bone marrow, but gave Luke the short explanation of what it is. Luke stopped him and said, "Actually..." then Luke went on to explain how bone marrow is different in children and Luke was right. Hahahaha! My cute little boy!

I asked Luke where he learned this and he said it was all from a book he read. Although he is an excellent reader I am still surprised he not only remembered all of these medical words but could pronounce them right after reading the book by himself.

Luke has an incredible long term memory. Ironically, his short term memory is terrible. He amazes me.

4 comments:

Emily said...

WOW, that is so impressive! Isaac is fascinated by that kind of stuff. We go on youtube almost daily to answer questions he has about the body. Most recently it was how platelets work.

Angie of Down This Road Designs said...

Amazing!! What a smart and cute guy you have on your hands.

Angie LeBaron said...

Luke is a smartie pants. What a great kid. Jonny had so much fun wrestling him Sunday and Bruce commented on how sweet Luke was because he keep letting Jonny win only Jonny thought he really was winning. Jonny thought he was so cool because he could "beat" Luke wrestling. I thought what a sweet boy Luke is to be so good to Jonny. And now we have confirmed he is not only kind but super smart.

Angie LeBaron said...

P.S. Let's be honest...who had more fun Luke or Matthew? I am sure Matthew was thrilled to have a captive audience.