Smartypants

OK, I'm throwing this post in here months after the fact. I didn't want to add it at the time because I felt it would come across as bragging. That was silly. I'm super proud of my little girl. Anyway, since this is over 5 months later, my memory is a bit hazy, but here is the gist of it:

We did one of the University of Washington research studies. We get called once every few months to participate in random studies and this one was in the institute for learning and brain sciences. I don't recall the exact purpose of the study, but they were measuring problem solving skills linked with memory and there was a side study with language and problem solving.

Anya's uncle Matt came with us. Matt hung out with the researchers in the back room who were watching and I held Anya while she performed the study. After we were done, they told us that no 10 month old had ever performed at her level on this study and they were incredibly impressed. So for fun/curiosity they also had her do the test like they have 2 year olds do it. She didn't do perfectly like the one for the younger set, but still did pretty good. I didn't know they were doing the advanced test at the time - I found out after she was done (which is why I thought she probably performed "average" on the entire thing). She also scored perfectly on the language/problem solving portion of the study.

We had of course suspected Anya was smart, but this made us start to think she might be unusually bright.