He's a smart boy

So Dad just said to Mom as we were discussing Lincoln's school day.

Let's preface this, though, by noting that Dad, through his weekly volunteering, had come to the conclusion that Lincoln and a girl are the two most advanced students in their class.

Then a funny thing happened today. The school uses a math website - which the kids affectionately call JiJi, after the name of the penguin that guides them through the program - that has more than a hundred levels, per grade, of some crazy challenges. It's so complex that we had no idea it has an end.

Apparently, it does. Lincoln finished the kindergarten program today. He reached the mythical end. Levynn's been doing this three years, and she had never heard of an end. It was such a big deal that Lincoln's teacher called all of his classmates over to him to see "the end." And shortly thereafter, that girl, the other advanced kid, finished, too. (That's the funny part.)

But that's not all. Lincoln is reading chapter books now. The kindergarten is doing a Books and Bagels event in the morning, when the kids will read a book to a parent (Mom's going) in the library and they'll eat bagels together in the cafeteria. And Lincoln's teacher picked him to read a paragraph, about who will go where, with a microphone in front of all the gathered kids and parents.

It's very exciting! Hopefully, we'll have a visual for you afterward. Stay tuned.