So I have to tell the story... lol...
We went to Washington, DC, when DS was 3y2m, and while DH was busy with what he had to do there, DS and I went to the zoo and some museums... and ended up at the aquarium in downtown DC (not the big one in MD, this one is tiny and dank and hidden in a basement...)
The first tank we came across said "Lion Fish" and DS pointed at it and said "Long Fish"....
I said (not thinking for a minute), "No honey, it says Lion Fish" and then "Hey, did you just read that?"
He said "No, I saw the fish and knew what it was"
I said "Sillykins, the tank is empty, you couldn't have seen the fish!" (and nevermind that he wouldn't have mispronounced it that way!)
He said "Well it looked like the sort of place they would have had a Lion Fish"
*snort!*
I know that was the same day we "officially" started talking about multiplication, too, because we were sitting outside that building for about an hour at dusk waiting for DH to come pick us up and we were alternating skip counting... so for instance he's say 10 and I'd say 20 and he'd say 30 and I'd say 40, etc. I think we did 5s and 10s but I don't actually remember it too well... I was watching for DH and keeping an eye on the enormous rats that were sneaking around the building...
A year later he was still pretending he couldn't read, but when I tried to claim that a concession stand only had pretzels, he said "But the sign says grilled hot dogs!" And he was six before he slipped up in front of anyone else -- I was starting to wonder if I was entirely off my rocker!!
