Genius Alert!

If you're not in the mood for bragging today, stop reading now!

Okay, for the other 5 people who are still reading, you will be amazed and impressed and, frankly, blown away by my four year old. Ethan can tell time on an analog clock. Some of you out there don't even know what an analog clock is, and he's doing it. Christian has been teaching him how a clock works over the last week and a half, and he can figure out what time it is. He can count by 5's to 60 (to 100, actually) and he understands AM and PM too. What a kid. He gets it right about 80% of the time. The hardest part is when it is, for example, 5:50 and he thinks it is 6:50 because the small hand is closer to the 6 than the 5. By the way, this clock is from a toy tool bench that Ethan took apart so that he could practice telling time on the clock section.

We also have some puzzle pieces that match a dollar amount, say 47 cents, and the coins that add up to 47 cents. He can add the money together and figure it out. He can add a quarter, two dimes and 2 pennies and come up with 47. It's amazing to watch him. He is a tiny bit obsessed, or more like extremely interested, in money, and so he has just had this strong desire to figure out how much each coin is worth, and now, to add them up to figure out how much money he has in his piggy bank. And he's only four!

I'm telling you, my kids are geniuses! I am one lucky mom.