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What
was he like as a kid – what was your son like?

“That’s
funny you should mention that I was just looking at pictures this
morning.  He was an adorable child – he was the kind of child that
every parent wishes they could have.  He was..um, you know we called
him our ‘Golden Boy’. He was loving, playful, adorable, cute – he
looked like cupid – he looked like one of those Renaissance
paintings of a cupid. He had thick curly blonde hair and blue eyes –
and he was extremely bright.  The thing that I adored about Dylan, I
think more than anything else, was how it tickled me- how easily he’d
learned. This child was doing equations with number magnets on the
refrigerator when he was an early three year old and he was still
wearing a diaper at night. He was just so interested in numbers and
letters and reading. He was really, from a very young age, very
scholarly.  He wanted to learn things. He could read books.like hard
cover books like Stuart Little or Charlotte’s Web silently to
himself. And when he was in kindergarten and he entered kindergarten
a year older, a year ahead of everyone else so he was only four years
old when he could read like that. So, he was a very extremely bright
child but he was a very normal child in terms of his social
interactions.  My family albums are filled with pictures of him doing
what healthy little boys do he was in cub scouts, he built snowmen,
he carved pumpkins. I mean, this is what our family album looks
like.”

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