8months. I got a toy vacuum cleener, lit up and clicked, a plastic Fisher Price pull train, circus wagons, ferris wheel, FP colored ring tower "puzzle", assorted wood puzzles, a big set of FP wood blocks, Work bench with dowls pegs to pound with wood mallet etc. I also got two switches but didn't have a clue or interest. I just recall them sitting on wrapping paper on the end table.
I could talk too, not sure how well though. And that afternoon concluded with me on my belly watching MR. Magoo, and a normally skittish Chihuahua that had claimed me as hers, was sleeping on my back. It was too cool to move, I was so happy this animal thingy was freindly this time; it ran away last time. It felt nice, I had Winken Blinken and Nod thoughts, and then I was sleeping ..... 8 months old visting my Godmother 2 days before Christmas call it 1year though 
The FP train was in prime shape for years because I stopped using it and played with my Lionels alone by 3 when battery op. trucks, came around (little.brother tore it up later) ..I was already counting rivets....the FP loco didn't cut it at 3. I wasn't great at running the Scout, but could. I got cloth teaching books that year too.
So IMO why NOT be prepared for fast learning?
To be honest, I don't think I maxed out my potential of early learning. If coached better I could have been doing more sooner in life, no doubt. I'm going to ramble with that point in mind.....
I really feel strongly we don't cater enough to aiding development in many kids. We underestimate and coddle from over exaggerated "danger" too much.... "kids bounce". My younger siblings weren't as lucky as I was to be raised as.much by the elders than Mom alone. She taught them to fear breaking things and performing physical actions etc. ..the worrying "helpless" woman sterotype projecting her own inabilities she chose for herself (not all her sisters were like that) I.e. If she couldn't; we surely couldn't. I see it more and more too; kids I feel are far behind where the kids around me were at the same age.
A kid near me was riding little motorcycles before he was in school. His 3rd grade brother knew how to set rich/lean and idle on them...Mike Turtle 🤔. Then he fixed my Lil' Indian minibike's timing the fall before 4th grade he knew it wasn't right.(Gramps had retarded it and governed four a top end speed of 25mph, I was now at 32-38 😁). Had to love them farm kids.
Before 3 you could still turn the trains on and I'd watch "forever"; usually playing with FP blocks and little people circus wagon and Ferris Wheel while watching.
Àt 2 Lincoln Logs soft plastic cars/trucks, GI Joe, then 3 was Tinker toys more soft stuff , GI-joe, some wind-up/ batt opp plastic car/truck, matchboxs, and a ton of cool sandbox/beach stuff. I got a plastic motored Scout that year and was using it. That was a travel year.
4 was cap guns, spy toys, and wind up tinplate, etc. Erector set in kindergarten, and got a huge Erector with motors and bike in 1st grade, some tools & tool belt. I could wire power to my track in first grade. Actually , before that, but I couldn't tighten the wires well. I could take direction over the phone for switches and phasing soon after.
Gramps bought new old stock sometime during the 50s. New grandchildren were still getting new PW sets in the early 70s , lol. In think he ran out by 72.
Normally "train season" began a week or so before Thanksgiving lasting until late Feb some years; until June others; with a few small loops during some rainy weeks .
Oh, I also had an under the bed layout from kindergarten Christmas until about 4th grade when we moved out of the Cuyahoga area again. On a board with wheels that rolled when you lifted it to pull out. (hated them, I stepped on them, busted my knees, jammed fingers, etc. and totally distracted from the layout's looks. Dad took them off for me 2cnd grade) tacking carpet under the frame boards (hardwood floor)
I learned "buyer beware" with a comic book toy soldier add that year ...they were hard breakable flat plastic soldiers. I'm still mad. "Rip off" was my favorite word for a while 😂
...and before you know it Kiddo will have thier first disillusioned revolation beginning their adulthood too. Those Army men for the layout were my wake up call the world wasn't always as honest as it presented itself to be, and when I feel I started a defensive side that imo really help begin adulthood. That and rewarded responsibility... but that was learned earlier...I think running a Super Chief was my first lure into that... a topper for a Cub Scout badge in 1st grd maybe...
Yea, never too early to dream & plan imo Dad, it's really gonna fly by for both of you, three years from now is nearly yesterday .
