Saturday, February 17, 2007

Can she...or can't she??

My mother (and grandmother) both tell me that my mother was reading at age 3. My sister was reading at age 4. However, between my husband and I, we began reading at the average age of 5.5. And the fact that neither Lindsey or Marissa get as much one-on-one time as they would if one of us were home with them makes me believe that they will be more on track with both of us than with any of their other family members.

The night before Valentine's Day I was organizing all of the valentines that I'd written out for Lindsey's and Marissa's classmates. Lindsey wanted to look at her classmates' valentines. I asked her to read for me which of her classmate each one was for. (She has 18 classmates). She read them all off and only got "Cyrus" and "Colton" mixed up. She even knew Ava, Alison, Alexis and Alexander and did not get them confused with each other.

So the question is...is she reading, or isn't she??

I don't believe she actually is -- I think she had a select set of names to choose from (18 to be exact) and could recognize the length of the name to know which name it was. When I asked her to read off Marissa's classmates names, she didn't get any of them right.

I would like to think she is precocious enough, but I don't think she is. But I have to say, it was still amazing to hear her read them off -- she did it again for Wayne and he was surprised!

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