He could be a Crystal child. 

http://www.thecrystalchildren.com/

Love,
Mairlyn   

His parents are definitely not "New Age" types at all.  They are Catholic, but don't really talk about it too much.  My nephews' grandmother (my Mom)  died last year and I know they've told my nephews that she is in Heaven, but I don't believe they've ever said she is "with God" so I'm not sure where he picked up that terminology from.  I also don't think they've ever talked to my nephews about the soul.

Next time I see him I'll have to ask him a few more questions.  Are there any specific questions I should ask?

Dear Polly,

You and Freebird might be interested in a conversation I once had with a woman I'll call M.  I met M over a drink in a bar in Cambridge Mass.  M was the director of the Day Care Center for the Harvard School of Education.  She shared some amazing comments made by the 2-3 year olds under her care. One little girl suddenly pointed out, "It's your birthday today, isn't it?"  M was shocked because she hadn't told the kids this.  M replied, "Yes it is, but how do you know?"  The child calmly explained, "I found out in heaven before I was born. I found out my Mommy's birthday and and my uncle's birthday in heaven too."   

Another child once proudly proclaimed to M: "During naptime I fly all around the room.  The other kids do too, but they don't know it."  Again M was stunned and asked, "Why don't they know that they fly around too."  The little boy frowned and observed, "Well, it's like a little mousy doesn't know that he's a mouse." 

Curious, M notified the parents about their kids' bizarre comments and asked them if they spoke to their kids about psychic experiences.   All the parents were incensed: "No, we don't believe in that nonsense.  Don't you be putting weird ideas into their minds either!"  So apparently the children's comments were not fueled by their parents' discussions of psychic phenomena.

Whether you believe in reincarnation or not (I do not!), the first child's inexplicable knowledge of these birthdays at least seems to suggest the preexistence of her soul prior to birth.  And as I have said elsewhere, the soul's preexistence is a well established, but neglected early Judaeo-Christian belief. 

Berserk

I'd believe just what the youngster said, ver batim. You might describe the situation differently, but that's different.

My wife asked my 3 yr old granddaughter, "Tina, where did you come from?" She answered, "Mommy's tummy, Gran'ma." My wife continued, "And before that, where?" She said, "Oh, I was a cook." The kid's a dead ringer for great-great-grandpa who was a cook.

Kids haven't as yet learned to tune out the spiritual in favor of the dominance of the material world.

- dave

If you'd like to see more along these lines - you might enjoy checking out a book I used (along with others) with a college level/senior year class on Child Development I was teaching a few years back...:  Children's Past Lives - how Past Life Memories Affect Your Child, by Carol Bowman, NY, Bantam Books, 1997.

From the couple of actual conversations I had with Carol at the time, along with personal experiences with kids over the years, it's not too unusual for parents and "others" to squash/quash/quickly dismiss things children say along such lines -- and write it all off as hooey (for their own reasons of course)...  but if "you're open to it", it's always nice to find out such things are more common than one might think!