April 17, 2007

letters and numbers

Elliot has been learning more of his letters, and is starting to recognize numbers, too. His counting ability seems to have gotten worse in the past week, though. He now always skips 4 and 9, I think because he is in a rush to get to 5 and 10 (which he usually says with gusto, since they are often the finale in the sequence). Last night during dinner I counted to 5 with him over and over again, and while he would say 4 after I said it a few times, when it came time to count to 5, it was always "one, two, three, five!"

Elliot's favorite letters are M and W, since it's fun to flip them upside down and convert one to the other. I don't think he knows N or Z yet.

He's starting to see letters all over the place and point them out to us. He gets very excited when he sees them in new places. Last night he kept pointing to his sippy cup and saying "U! U!" At first I didn't see it (I was looking at the words printed on the cup and there was no U), but then realized he was pointing to a character with a smiling mouth, and indeed it looked just like a U.

Posted by Jen at April 17, 2007 08:14 AM
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He gets it from me.

Posted by: Jessica at April 19, 2007 06:57 AM