Ansley is having to learn her address for school. She has our street name down but CANNOT memorize that 4 digit street number! At the dinner table tonight, I was teaching her a chant to remember it with. She was rolling with it for a few minutes and then got frustrated and gave up. She normally catches on to things very quickly but this was difficult for her and its frustrating to her.
A few minutes later I thought I would try it with her again. To my surprise, little sister (who had been sitting nearby), blares out the entire address AND correctly! What?? She is 2 1/2! Her daddy and I look at each other and crack up! Where did that come from? Her daddy then follows up and says: "Alpharetta(she repeats back : "Alphawetta") "Georgia" (she repeats back. . . "Bulldogs!" God love that baby. She automatically associates Georgia with Bulldogs! How funny is that?!
Sometimes because she is the baby, we think and treat her as if she is really younger than she is. When in fact, our little girl has quite the range of knowledge under that head full of hair!
We love our girls! And we are thankful to them for making our days and nights entertaining!
No pictures tonight, but I hope it made you smile!
***(By the way, Ansley did finally get that 4 digit street number, but she certainly did not like little sister "beating her to the punch!" ;-))
4 years ago
How sweet!! LOL at the Bulldogs. ;) We are the exact same way with Maddie. Just today she told us the Pledge of Allegiance and the months of the year - out of the blue! Derek & I both looked at each other like, WHAT?! Where did that come from? LOL Didn't even know she knew it! We were the same with the address, too... though with Audrey learning the books of the Bible. I had been working with Audrey on them then all of a sudden I hear Maddie going, "Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, Acts, Romans." !! I'm really thinking if we're going to home school next year, Maddie needs to stay home, too. She's such a sponge!
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