Flash card and Screw driver

4/16/2007 - Still a little cold out - about 50+ now

We bought some flash cards for Samantha last night. Elsa took them out and started to show Samantha. We were very surprise at how much Samantha knows!!

She is a very smart girl. The flash cards are useful for us to teach her in a systematic way as oppose to just teach her when ever we saw something.

We went to a friend's house last weekend and their son could not speak as much. One of the reasons is that he knows sign language. There is no incentive to learn to speak when you can communicate with sign language. We are glad that we did not teach Samantha sign language.

Last week, our old elliptical (exercise machine) broke in the basement. Samantha was playing with the paddle when it broke. She looked at it and thought for a minute. Then she said, "Idea!" and immediately went upstairs to get her little plastic screw driver. She came down with it and said "I can help!" while raising her little finger. She then proceeds to poke at the broken paddle repeatedly. Her screw driver got stuck and dropped into the elliptical chain enclosure. She look at us with wide eyes and said, "Oops" while covering her little mouth with her little finger. I hold back my laugh and ask her what happened. She looked at my wife with her little teary eyes and then started to put her little finger into the little hole where she dropped her screw driver. We immediately intervened and got the plastic screw driver out for her. We both were laughing so hard later in our bedroom. We both think we are very glad to have a smart, healthy and helpful daughter.