More Dinner Conversations with R

At dinner last night, I was making the last 3 soy nuggets for the kids. I was telling R that I would have to split one in half for RUS to see if he liked it. I told R she could have 2 and RUS could have a half. Then R pipes up with "We can both have three halfs."

My jaw dropped a bit. Of course I'd been working on some basic addition and subtraction with R, but we'd never talked about fractions or division or anything like it. I thought to myself, maybe she's just thinking through how she would split each of them up and solving the problem mentally without the nuggets themselves. It's not a hard problem, per se, but not one I would expect a 3 year old to just know how to do so quickly. Finally, my brain and mouth worked together and I asked her, "How did you know that?"

She looked up and shrugged, saying, "I guessed."