Numbers Game

Parker has a thing for numbers. Whether this will translate into a thing for math remains to be seen, but for now playing with numbers, and counting—in English, French, and Spanish—are a major preoccupation for him.

Here he's playing with a new numbers game that Rachel bought for him, which he's pretty keen on. I'm not sure what the educational purpose of this is supposed to be, but it doesn't matter to Parker. He will sit for an hour putting the tiles in place and taking them back off, and talking about them. One of his favorite books is Chicka Chicka 123, and he often reenacts the plot with whatever numbers he has handy, including these tiles.



Here he's playing with his giant calculator, another favorite toy. He has a few games that he plays with this. One favorite game is to enter (and then clear) all of the numbers in order. "I made a one," he'll say. "I made a two!" This often goes on up into the twenties.



Another game, which he's playing in the above picture, is to enter numbers sequentially from 1-n, and then sing the song that corresponds to that track number on his favorite CD. Yep, he's also musical.

And, as demonstrated in these pictures, he also recently learned to say cheese.