Hello and welcome!
If you are in the Twin Cities area, hurray! You have a lot of options for GT kids, many of them public and available to all if there's space through open enrollment. I sent you a pm (blinking envelope).
To answer your question re: not knowing your child was gifted, I think that is fairly common for people who are very bright or GT themselves. "Gifted" wasn't really in our vocabulary, and our kiddo seemed normal to us and to the folks we hang with. We knew he was smart, but that was about it until we read a newspaper article that two different people saved for us re: "signs your preschooler is gifted."
