Osmosis

Last night we were sitting at the dinner table. Addie turned around and started pointing at the letters on her high chair, and proceeded to count to 14. Sean and I thought it coincidentally sounded like the actual numbers until she reached 6 and it became clear she was really counting...and then we looked at her agape until she counted to 14 and then went back to 6. She didn't miss a single number or count them out of order up until then. We don't practice counting with her, Gillian doesn't practice counting with her....we have absolutely no idea where this came from, and never heard her do it before that moment. The only thing we can think is that she's getting it from Elmo's world. All I know is that Addie reached this point more than 4 months sooner than Gillian did. Maybe Addie will be the engineer of the family. You never know.

I went to get the video camera, but by the time I turned it on, she was done entertaining us with her tricks and was on to playing counting games with Gillian, which she had never done before tonight either. Huh.