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Fun encounters with my girls today:

So, I'm pretty sure I'm raising a couple geniuses!  (And I am NOT one for sure...I had to look up the spelling of "genius"!)

This morning while swinging on her swing set in the back yard, Ari looks at me and says, "Mom, two and two make four"...well, that's pretty normal for a five, almost six-year-old.  Then, she says, "And two and two and one are five", and I'm thinking, "Wow, she is putting together three numbers in her head, that's pretty tricky for a kid on her way to first grade!"  Then, she says, "And two and two and two is six".  She continues with, "two and two and two and one is seven and two and two and two and two is eight"!!!!!!!  She was multiplying in her head without counting on fingers, toes or out-loud!  Her kindergarten teacher told me that Ari was excelling in math, but wow!  I'm pretty sure that's not normal addition (multiplication) for kindergarten!  Yay for math!  At least someone in our family will be able to keep our books!  Calvin and I are so bad with numbers!

Later, after Ari and I had finished reading together, Ella hops up into the reading spot next to Mommy and starts to "pretend" to read, only, she wasn't pretending!  She was sounding out words!  I knew that she was almost ready because a couple of days ago, she sounded out the words "mom" and "dad", which shocked me, but she had known all of the letters and letter sounds since she was three and a half, but putting together words is a different thing altogether!  I could tell that she was using the pictures to help her figure out what the words were saying, but she was looking at the words to see how they started to deduce what the word probably was.  For instance, if the picture had a picture of Clifford, the big red dog, playing with Emily Elizabeth, and the sentence read, "Clifford plays with Emily Elizabeth", Ella could look at the picture and find that since Clifford starts with a "C" and Clifford is in the picture, the word is probably Clifford!  She used the beginning letters to figure out the word.  Anyways, I was impressed!  It's definitely encouraging since she's still in diapers (at age 4)!  (We think there is a sensory issue going on...that she can't physically feel the urge to go because she really really wants to)

For lunch today, I thought I'd mix things up and surprise the girls with hotdogs instead of the usual sandwiches, so when I said, "Hey girls!  Do you want hotdogs for lunch today!?!" it caught me totally off guard when Ari's response was, "um, pizza?"  Like, since I was changing it up, maybe she could have anything??  But when I made it apparent that the choice was sandwiches or hotdogs, the answer was a unanimous "hotdogs!"

Man, I love being a mom.  :)

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