Numbers

Parker likes to say his numbers, as I think I've mentioned. I don't think he's quite connected the words he's saying to the concept of units, but he sure likes saying the words. So when we started him in a Spanish language daycare, we were not surprised at how quickly he picked up uno through diez. His teachers were surprised, but we weren't. He can also sing his ABCs in both English and Spanish, including both endings*, and now sings all sorts of other Spanish songs we don't know.

So we're sitting together on the couch this afternoon watching one of these Baby Einstein DVDs that he likes so much. And it's the one that has all the segments with different languages, which I've never really sat and watched before. But this time I'm sitting with Parker, watching him watch this, when the show starts counting to ten in German. Parker is completely rapt, and I notice that his lips are moving. By the time they get to four or five I realize that Parker is mouthing the words along with the show, like he wants to be saying them but isn't quite fast enough. And then, sure enough, right on cue he manages to say, "Seben, Acht, Neun!"

He didn't do any of the French numbers, though, the slacker.


*ending one: now I know my ABCs, won't you come and sing with me. ending two: now I know I won't forget, how to sing my alphabet. I have no idea what they say in the Spanish version.