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Adalyn has taken a sudden interest in the states and geography in general.  This is a bit scary to me because i've never been good at memorizing that type of thing.  It's even hard for me to read a map!  If I am holding a map in the car giving the driver directions (which I'm usually NOT), I must turn the map every time we turn the car to be able to read it correctly.  I've only memorized the compass rose (why is it called that?) a few years ago and the only way i can remember which way is west or east to remember that it spells "we."  Needless to say, we have not formally started any type of geography work. aaaaagh!  Adalyn was so proud of herself yesterday.  She said, "Momma, I know what the capitol of New York is!!!!"  I said, "You do?!?  What?"  She said, "New York City!!!"  To which I replied........"That's great, Adalyn!"  Thinking to myself, maybe she'll just teach herself!  Then she told me that she also knew the capitol of Texas.  I thought, wow, I can handle this!   "It's Texas City!" she says.  Then, I, being the smart homeschooling mother that I am, explained to her that every state doesn't have their capitol as that states name with "city" attached to the end.  I told her that Austin is Texas' capitol and she was very excited because she knows that her cousin lives there.  She found a children's atlas and I showed her how to find the capitol of each state (I DO know how to do that).  She spent the rest of the afternoon reading the atlas.  Is she my child?  It wasn't until later that evening when telling my sweet husband who did not even make fun of me *very much* that I realized (with his help) that New York CIty is not the capitol of New York.  yikes!  I knew that...really I did!  I guess we'll be learning all this map stuff together!

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