Stinkin' Smart Justin

The other day Justin said to Tyler: "Dad, you want to hear the alphabet backwards?" Of course, Tyler said yes. Justin amazed us when he did the entire alphabet backwards with only a little help from V thru Q.


Sometime when we are driving in the car he will say: "Look Mom, there is a pattern." and he will follow up with what the pattern is: Boy, girl, boy, girl. Red, blue, red, blue. He picks up patterns in things really easily.


Lately, Justin has been into addition and subtraction. He knows 1+1, 2+2, 3+3, 4+4, 5+5, 1+2/3/4/5/6/7/8/9, 2+ 3/4/5, 4+5 and probably a few others. He really has the subtraction down to a science when he is eating. "Mom, I have to have 5 more bites and I ate one bite so I have 4 left." and so on like that.


When we are riding in the car he always asks what roads we are driving on and wants to know what city we are in at all times. He asks directions to places we have been like "How do you get to Park City?" "Where is Nevada?" and "How do you get to Provo?" He knows our address and all the major roads coming from Grandma Clark's house to our house.


Justin also is very interested in school buildings. He wants to know the name of every signle one. He knows all of the schools by name that we regularly drive by and how old you have to be to go there. He can't wait to be 5 to go to elementary school.


I told Justin the other day that he was 'stinkin' smart.' and he said, "I'm not stinkin' smart. I'm just smart." I had to chuckle at that one.


Justin is a very deep thinker. He gets this from his dad. Justin can memorize anything, just like his daddy!


Mom is so proud of you Justin!!