After community storytime at the library today, I told Rio she could pick out two books to take home with us. She went over the shelf of special toddler books she likes, chose two, and then said, “We have to take the bus book too.” She was right. She loves the bus book. I’d buy it for her, but I think half the thrill is finding it at the library and taking it home.
So we took the two books (one of which is the Skull Alphabet book and is as goth as that title suggests), plus the bus book, and she handed them over to the librarian along with the library card. She totally knows the drill.
What I didn’t realize until just now is that she also knows how many books “two” is. She’s been able to count to ten pretty accurately for many moons now, but at first it was definitely an abstract – she’d rattle off the numbers like she can say a nursery rhyme, but she didn’t have the first clue what a number was.
I don’t when that changed. I don’t remember her starting to grasp the concept of numbers, or practicing these kind of simple counting problems with her. Today at the library it was totally routine – I told her how many she can have and she got that number, as if we do it all the time. Maybe we do. Funny that I didn’t notice sooner.
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