Jigsaw genius at 2 - anyone else had this?

[Fionn]

I'm interested in your experiences on this: my 2 1/2 year old has been doing his brother's 60 piece age 4+ Monsters Inc jigsaw on his own with great ease for the past 3 months or so and this week did an age 6+ 80 piece pirate jigsaw on his own with me just putting pieces in the right area for him to fit in. His dad is a mathematician so I suppose it's an heriditary thing, he has a lot of patience for it. Does this mean he'll probably be good at maths?

roisin, he only strarted school in sept but has picked up the basics of reading very easily, you know sounding the letter to make the word etc. He can 'read' quite a few different words now but I'm not sure if it's anymore than the next child
During the whole summer hols all he did was write notes to people, I think he would ask 'how do you spell.....?' about 250 times a day so I think alot of letter recognition came from there during those horrible weeks when it was too hot to go in the garden and I was too pregnant to move!!!

This thread is great! My 2 year old dd is obsessed by her pack of 6 ELC puzzles and does them all day, over and over. She hardly plays with anything else. She is also interested in what is a letter and a number and will point them out and ask what they are. This thread confirms what I have always suspected. She is a genius! Lord only knows where it comes from, I am a complete dunce when it comes to maths and so is dp.

my DD5 was same at 2yo and now has reading ability of year 4/5. I have never pushed her and never intend to but her class size is very small (10 in year one) and its a state school (Local village). I agree with the comments that they have the rest of their lives to look for words but when me and DD read together we spend time also looking at the pictures in the book as well as the words, i think that part is important and most enjoyable.