WARNING: Parental bragging ahead.
I usually remember that Kate is pretty smart, probably because she has always tried to act older than her age and has alway enjoyed using her mental abilities. The other two have always acted a little more like I would expect kids to act, with the running and playing and not necessarily trying to engage us in conversation. So I tend to forget that they are kind of bright too, but every so often they remind me.
Paige is reading now. I had thought that we would have some big celebration for surviving a third tour of “Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons,” which I did with the first two and Donia started with Paige. Paige sometimes tolerated them and sometimes didn’t, and she seemed to be getting the hang of it. Then all of a sudden we noticed she was reading things that the lessons wouldn’t have taught her. After we switched schools, her teacher wrote us a note saying that she was sending some extra material home since Paige was reading so well. The other day, I read a book with her and had the thought that she was reading better than Kate was at that age. Which may or may be true, since I don’t have empirical evidence, but it was still kind of cool.
Quinn got into the Discovery program at school, and tonight he went to the open house introducing the program to the third graders (they all start the program next week). They took some test to determine who qualified for the program, and tonight for some reason they explained to everyone which percentiles the scores represented. A score over 130 was the top 2%, and Quinn got a 131. So that was pretty cool. Of course, since they had explained about the percentiles, Quinn sees the score and announces in a stage whisper “I’m in the top 2%!” So we might have talk about keeping a low profile.
The thing with these two is that while Kate is likely to use her intelligence for good, they might lean a little more toward using it for evil. Especially that little one.
