The Counting begins...

Toby is slowly learning to count. We realized this the other day when we were counting down to time out and he quickly turned away from whatever mischief he was into to announce “TOOOOO!” after Rob had sternly said, “ONE!”

So he knows what comes after one. Two.

He’s not so sharp with three, though. Today we tried to encourage his counting by purposely saying one and asking him what came next. We got the eager “TOOOOOOOOO!” exclamation again. But he was a little stumped by the complicated number that comes after that. He made several attempts at it- - the first time we asked he thought for a second and then said, “Ga-ga?” (Yes, he’s STILL asking for Grandma…) And every other time we try to coax him past two he comes up with a variety of solutions : Bath, Milk, Blue berries, Pictures....

Who KNOWS what comes after two, but you gotta start somewhere….