Saturday afternoon, and Bridget is sitting on the sofa with Maggie looking at the book pictured here. On one of the pages, there are pictures which tell a story, and then there are two faces pictured, one happy and one sad. Depending on the picture, the idea is to circle whether the person is happy or sad. On one particular page the picture is a little boy and his tricycle. One of the wheels fell off the trike, and so Bridget asked Maggie how the little boy was feeling. Maggie looked at the picture, and without missing a beat said "He's
EXASPERATED." I was in the kitchen, and thought I mis-heard her, so I waited. Bridget must have been thinking the same thing, because she asked again "How is he feeling?" and Maggie said 'exasperated'. Bridget then said you're right Maggie, he
is exasperated, so would that mean he's happy or sad? Of course at that point, it didn't matter whether Maggie got it right or wrong, she already knew what the correct word was in that situation.
Not bragging or anything, but I think Maggie (as well as our other children) is pretty darn smart. In twenty years or so, don't be surprised if you're reading some great literary novel by Maggie Mogee.
(She did pick sad by the way.)
As a follow up to the last post about Maggie and her amazing vocabulary, I couldn't pass up the opportunity to brag a little bit about Emma. Here she is reading Rene Descartes and his Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy. Just a little light reading in her spare time.
