JAYBIRD, OUR GENIUS

We haven't actually tested Jase for his IQ, but I'm pretty sure he is genius material. Three Peaks Elementary just hosted a Math-A-Thon for all the grades, K to 6th. All the students collected pledges for the amount of questions they scored correctly during the Math-A-Thon. I sent his package with him to school and picked him up at day's end. As usual, he jumps in the van and goes through his backpack, but on that day he informed me that he won the Math-A-Thon.

Well (trying to be a good and fair mother), I gently reminded him that there probably wasn't a winner and told him I was sure he did an awesome job. A few days later, he shows up in the van with a free pass to the aquatic center. I asked him if they had a drawing or something. I mean, why would Three Peaks give my child a free swim pass. It certainly wasn't for winning the Math-A-Thon?

My readers are probably assuming about now that my genius of a boy did not gain his intellect from his mother as I should have clearly listened to the handsome and excited boy that jumped in my van a week ago to tell me that he won the Math-A-Thon.

Oh, but not me. I filled out the paperwork for the free pass, and sent it back to Kindergarten. We certainly weren't turning it down. I just assumed that Jase won it from some sort of raffle. He is our lucky duck, you know.

Another week passes, and we get our monthly newsletter from the school. I look through the events and notice the name Jase W. in the Math-A-Thon section. I looked at it, looked at it some more, and finally realized that all this time my Jaybird was right. He did win the Math-A-Thon. And he didn't just win his Kindergarten class but every Kindergarten class in Three Peaks Elementary :)

I ran into his teacher a little later and told her the story. She informed me that I should probably listen to Jase. After all, he is usually always right.