preschool for pbs...

my brother, sister-in-law and baby girl are home and have been for almost a week. it sounds like everything went very well for them, paperwork for the two states and agencies was all filed and set to go before two weeks were up. they headed out and made it home by this weekend. my mom and dad were very anxious to get to meet baby girl and jealous that we had already met her.

we skyped with them tonight while they were having "tummy time". baby girl was trying to turn her head in the direction of our voices on the computer. she was very alert and awake for being almost two weeks old. i think pbs was a little jealous of the attention that baby girl was getting and was trying to show his grandparents, aunt and uncle all of his toys and his newest trick.

his newest trick happens to be putting together a puzzle of the united states, naming each state and their capitol. the boy is two and a half! this has become one of his favorite things to do. we started out by asking him where he was born and showing him the state. then we'd ask where other people were born and show those states. we also ask where people live and show him those states. from there it moved to naming each state and now we're naming each state and their capitol. what two and a half year old do you know that knows these things? he also knows that delaware is the first state and that pennsylvania is the second state. we're still working on the others.

we're thinking about putting him into preschool this fall. i know, we're a little late on this but we're hoping to be able to get him in at the church preschool up the street from where we live. we have only one car, so this is the best option for us. i hope that the teachers don't find pbs to be too precocious or ahead of the rest of the kids. i work with him all the time and that's how he knows all of this. he knows his alphabet, can recite full books back to us, can count to 20 (when he wants to), knows many names of dinosaurs and what time period they are from, etc. i think he might even be able to read a little bit, but i haven't tested that theory yet. i don't want to be the parent that thinks their child is a genius and can do no wrong. i know he can do wrong! i have seen him do it and be given consequences for it.

if you were a teacher and you had a student like this in your class, what would you do? would he be bored? is two and a half too early to put him into preschool? i hope not. we really want to put him into preschool for the socialization of it because he's not around that many other kids. i think that he would do fine around the other kids and want him to realize that the world does not revolve around him. at home, the world does seem to revolve around him. he's an only child. i think preschool is just what we need for pbs. any other thoughts or suggestions on this subject?