Lucas can Read!

These last few weeks I feel like Lucas has made some huge advancements.  It's like something in his brain just clicked and now he can read.  He can actually read really well.  I'm surprised sometimes at what words he can pick up.  He's been practicing his writing too.  We got a white board and he will sit there and try to spell different words.  He does a pretty good job on his own, but needs help figuring out some of the harder words.  I took a video of him today because I want to be able to remember when he started being able to read and write.

He can read a lot of our books too, although I'm sure some of that is just memorization.  He has a really good memory!  He gave a talk in primary a few weeks ago and we sat down and wrote it the morning of.  It was only a few sentences long, but it had big words like forgivness, and after going over it a few times, he basically had it memorized.  I think he just kinda looked at the words and either read it or used the first letter of the big words to remind him what word came next.  He got up there in front of everyone and read/recited it.  I was so impressed.

He has been in to math lately as well.  This is another area where I think memorization helps him, but I think he understands the concept too.  He knows 1+1, 2+2, 3+3, all the way to 10+10. Sometimes he plays with the calculator and punches in numbers to see what they equal.  I know I'm biased, but I think he might be a genius!