From this distance, I find it difficult to remember what our children did when. But today I delved back into past diaries, looking for information on when it was we bought our current dishwasher. (More on that in a later post.) Here is something amusing I found:
[Today] Janet had her kindergarten registration. [The first grade aide] filled out [her] card, and when Janet not only knew her phone number and address with zip code, but also spelled "Wightman" for her, she said, "I guess you're ready for kindergarten!"
I had not remembered that Janet could spell her last name before going to kindergarten, I but I guess that when you have a name that everyone misspells, you learn to spell it early. She would have heard her parents answering the "What is your name?" question enough times that for all I know she thought her name was really "Janet Wightman W-I-G-H-T-M-A-N"!
