Puzzle Fanatic = Proud Mama

Since Drew was about 14 months he's been addicted to puzzles.  We have videos of him telling us his shapes from puzzles that were geared toward 3 year olds back before he was even a year-and-a-half old.



Since he's mastered all the puzzles that are supposed to go into a defined slot - we've tried finding more challenging puzzles. He loves the difficult ones at school... which he mastered within about a week.

So when Drew and I went to Grammy and GrampC's on Saturday he was excited to pull out the state puzzle - the same one we had as kids. (I went through a phase in 3rd grade where I wanted to know all the state capitals - and had a map in my room where my dad would quiz me every night. Maybe it's because we moved so much as a kid and we visited a lot of those states. Or maybe I was just a dork.)

 

He's liked this puzzle for the last several visits - you know, to take every piece out and then leave a puddle of pieces for someone to put back together.  Well this trip it was different.  He shocked us by knowing where several of the states belonged as he put them away himself - even if they weren't in their correct spot they were in the right vicinity!

We knew he was familiar with California's location, but  were shocked to find out he knows where the state of Texas, Florida, Montana, Idaho, New York and several others were. Oh and I was really impressed when he was actually reading the state capitals off the backs of some of the states.  Like Arkansas... he told me it was Little Rock.  My jaw dropped at that one.  Must be those sight words kicking in.

Kady was there too, but could really care less about the puzzle.  She tried to help Drew remove the pieces until he got all OCD about where she was putting the pieces.  She resorted to showing off that she was a musical prodigy.

 

OK so our kids aren't exactly geniuses, but we're proud of them anyway!