Wise Beyond Her Years

I am so proud of my daughter.

Last night, the kids were watching Super Why! while I was cleaning up in the kitchen. For those that have never seen this PBS show, it’s actually pretty cool: a computer-generated little boy name Whyatt hooks up with three of his friends from Storybook Village to solve a problem one of them is having. The foursome become the Super Readers, and they make their way into a book wherein they learn how someone else solved a similar problem. Neat concept, really.

So anyway, in last night’s episode, the problem they were having was that Wolfie—a character I’ve never seen before, but what do I know?—erased the scoreboard, right in the middle of the kids’ kickball game. This obviously constituted a major emergency, since no one could remember what the score was. (It was 3-1, by the way; our heroes were winning.) ;-)

True to form, Whyatt immediately called upon the Super Readers to figure out what to do, which was interesting, since the winning team consisted of—you guessed it!—the three kids and one pig that constitute the Super Readers’ secret identities. I smiled and muttered under my breath, “Guess you’re just gonna forfeit that game anyway, huh?”

A few minutes pass; I’m still cleaning in the kitchen, maybe half–paying attention to the show. All of a sudden, Leah gasps. Without any prompting from the show whatsoever—it really had nothing to do with what was going on in the on-screen book, at that point—she says, “I hope the game’s not over before they all get back!”

That’s my girl. :-)