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We have been sending our 21 month old daughter to pre-school since she was 18 months old (she'll also turn 2 at the end of April, Sashime!). She is very advanced and already knows most of the things they are trying to "teach" the older kids as well as having a much more developed vocabulary than all of them, but we don't send her to pre-school to learn these things (obviously, as she knew all of them before she even attended), but to have fun and meet and play with other kids.
I've heard and seen too many disturbing stories of kids pushed to excel at a young age to the point that their only interaction is with kids much older than them. They don't develop socially as they are too young for their new classmates and too seperated from kids their own age.
A gifted child is always a gifted child and will remain gifted no matter what. But it is also important to remember that she is also a child.
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