Mommy: One . . .
Katie: Two . . . tree . . .
Josie: four . . . thicks . . .
Mommy: You forgot five!
Josie: . . . thicks . . . seben . eight . nine . . .
Katie and Josie: Ten!
Josie: ‘leben . . . eighteen!
So they skip a number here and there and they need a little help getting started, but I think being able to count is a pretty awesome accomplishment for two twenty-month-olds!
(Yes, I'm aware that the above dialogue is a bit 'Josie' heavy, but the fact is that she usually says six seven eight and nine so fast that Katie doesn't have time to jump in. She does it well on her own, though.)
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Adorable...I hope to have a private hearing of this performance tomorrow morning!
I remember walking with Brenna one day when she was about three, I think. She could count, all right, but on this day I realized that she understood "quantity". Without counting, with just a glance, she saw three trees, four cars, two people. Five and up, though, it was just "alotta".
Great baby counting...I just wanted to share.
It turns out that humans can recognize quantity with a glance up to about 4 or 5 and after that it requires counting to determine quantity...for any aged human. Beyond that, humans can tell which of two groups has more if they are sufficiently different, but that's about it. That's why numbers had to be invented...to help us make sense of quantity.
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