Genius Child

Lexi has known the entire alphabet and has been able to to identify all of the letters independently since just after her second birthday. Fadia works on this with her a lot because she really enjoys it, so she has now moved on to learning "little" letters, learning about the sounds that the letters make, and learning about how letters make words, and you can sound out the word to figure out what letters make that word. We have also been working on writing letters since she's been demonstrating much greater control over the crayon and making things like faces, lines and circles for a few months now. She's been amazing me with the speed that she seems to be picking up on these new skills and every time she writes her name for me, it becomes more and more clear.

This morning she was writing on her easel and came running in to bring me over and show me what she had done. This is what I walked in and saw...

Do you know what it was that she was excited about?? The new pink crayon she'd found... When I asked her what she had written on the page she said, "my name" like I was crazy for having to ask and then followed it up with, "but look, mama! Look at this new pink crayon I found!!!"

The child is a genius...there is just no denying it. :)