Funny Counting Stories

I have been working with the girls on their counting. My Mom bought Emily a little counting book for her birthday and I realized that I definitely should be teaching her how to count. So we've been counting ALL the time. It's actually saved me a couple of times too. Like when I'm making the girls their sandwiches. What 3-year-old or 1-year-old do you know that is patient? I tell them, "Ok, I'm making sandwiches. Let's count to ten. What's first?" Meredith likes the game the best so she starts it out. "One." Of course, Emily is not about to be outdone by the one-year-old so she says, "two." And then so on until we finish to 10.

Meredith at one point was in trouble for something (like I could possibly remember ALL of the things these girls get into or get in trouble for :) so I said, "I'm going to count to three." (I can't even remember what she was supposed to do by three.) "One...Two..." and then Meredith says, "three, four!" LOL. She says the cutest things.

Last night when we were picking up Nathan at the school (we don't do this very often) Emily and Meredith were pointing to the cars saying, "Look, cars" So Nathan says, "See all of the cars. Look, one car, two cars, etc. So this morning I told Emily, "let's count". Emily starts out, "One car..."

Meredith is really pretty good with her animals and their sounds. When Emily isn't there she says them all so fast, but when Emily is there she has to say it really fast so she can beat Meredith to it, so Meredith doesn't do it when Emily is around.