Since this is the humblebrag thread, child #2 graduates tomorrow night with his Masters in Civil Engineering (could also go in the graduation thread, can't wait to fight the shitshow at the Erwin Center tomorrow night, then turn around and be back in Austin at 8am for the Masters-only ceremony at Bass...). He's already got a job lined up in Dallas, starts in the middle of June.
When he was little, people thought he was "special", we never did, but he couldn't talk well and just seemed to be off in space all the time. Turned out, his hearing was all fucked up, even though they kept telling us, no, he doesn't need tubes or anything. They actually put him in the pre-k for special kids. Once we got everything figured out, my wife busted her ass one summer to work on his speech before he went to kindergarten. Even when he was in school he never seemed "smart", he got good grades but never was a bookworm or anything.
Our daughter was the genius, top of her class every year, graduated valedictorian, top score at state in Academic Decathlon. The boy, I never figured it out, he played sports (never too "into" any one, but just to try them all, although he did finally hit a groove in cross-country), was first chair in band (thank you, that's my influence there), learned guitar solos by ear sitting in his room, just normal. But damned if he didn't start taking all the math/science classes in high school and just acing them. And then he got valedictorian as well.
Suddenly, it just all clicked. My wife's dad was an engineer with the Highway Dept. for 30 years, so we kind of steered him that way, I don't think he really knew what else he wanted to do. He just took to it like a duck to water. My daughter, she's still probably technically smarter, she went to Rice, got a degree in linguistics, lives in Seattle now and draws comics while she's looking for a job. Like I said, he's already got a job laid out, I think eventually him and a buddy from high school want to start their own firm. Would have never in a million years guessed how this would have turned out for the both of them. And he plays in my polka band with me, father and son on stage together. Couldn't be prouder.