i study art...(con)art

Well, it's official...Eli has the gift. Eli has been attending a reading and math camp for the past two weeks at the SLU lab school and will continue for two more weeks. Every week the teacher sends home a progress report to let us know how Eli is doing and what they are doing. This week we found out to our surprise that Eli has been working on sight words, twenty to be exact. They told us that Eli is having fun using the shaving cream to make letters and to spell out the words...REALLY? Eli has convinced them that he can not read! He knows most of the rules of the English language. I called a friend who has a little girl in his class and she is reading books! Eli just thought it was more fun to play with the shaving cream!!! He has conned these poor unsuspecting student teachers!!! He is very good at his craft. For the record, when we were driving to get a new toy that he convinced me that his mother said that I would take him to get when I got home from work (yes, I too fall victim sometimes), he read "car wash, not responsible for..." then we drove away.