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I don't know what Ana's attention span is, but Maylie (who is 39 mos) loves Candy Land and Memory. She'll play Candy Land over and over until YOU get tired of it. And we got these work books from the grocery store that she is enthralled with. They're called like Preschool Basics and there's a few others for ages 3-5. It's easy to see with that what concepts she knows and what she doesn't. With those I've noticed that Maylie hates to color (she'll draw horizontal lines in a rectangle but won't want to color it in, or will do a little scribble and say she's done), she doesn't understand rhyming words, patterns, or mazes. (she's starting to grasp the concept of the latter 2 with the practice from the workbook) But all the numbers, letters, counting, shapes, categorizing... she loves that stuff and wants to sit there and do these workbooks for ages.

And with the traffic light, Bill taught her that red means stop, green means go, and yellow means slow down. So now when we're driving, she points out the light and says "You need to stop, the light is red!!" Backseat drivers... ;-)