Savant or Just Crazy?

We have now been granted an extension to our UK visas so that we can stay here until January 2009 — hopefully it won't take that long to finish my PhD!

I was particularly tickled by the letter from the UK Home Office granting Ellie's extended visa. The letter read, "Dear Miss Barrett: I am returning the enclosed passport endorsed with an extension of stay in the United Kingdom. Please read the endorsement(s) carefully. Yours sincerely, ...."

Maybe the Home Office has noticed how advanced a reader Ellie is or maybe the British just expect alot of 17 month olds!

In any case, lest you think Ellie is overly studious, here's one of her more silly moments.



(You may notice some similarity with her screams when "playing" with her toys when she was four months old.)