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Learning to Count

July 28th, 2008. Published under parenting. No Comments.

My two-year-old never ceases to amaze me. I was picking up some scattered toys when I heard her counting from one to ten all by herself.  Moments like this can fill a mother’s heart with so much happiness.  So I’m marking down July 24, 2008 as a day when my baby reached another milestone in her life.

I’ve been teaching her to count since she was a year old. We would count whenever we’d go up and down the stairs or whenever we put away the toys and stuff that she’d mess up in the living room.  The best that she could say was “two, tee, two, tee” (two, three, two, three). Last month she liked to say “eat, nigh, eat, nigh” (eight, nine,eight,nine) everytime she got hold of the phone.   (more…)