Tonight for bedtime Lindsay chose the book ‘The Foot Book’ by Dr. Seuss to read and because she has just gone crazy with the whole reading thing she likes to read the page along with me. So, after reading a page she then wanted to count how many feet there were and once again I realized that she always skips the number 16 when counting. I don’t know why! She can say the word ‘sixteen’ but in her mind it goes …15, 17… and I always correct her but she still forgets every time. I hope this doesn’t mean she’ll have anxieties about the number 16 when she’s older. I hope her 16th birthday is a good one.

Another amazing thing I wanted to share with you is something else actually to do with numbers. Our neighbors have a little girl named, Lily, who comes over and plays quite a bit, which we love. Well, we love it a lot when they get along, but when they don’t it’s no fun. Anyway, today they took turns hiding our Easter eggs (which we have 11) and having Easter egg hunts. So, this particular time Lindsay had hid the eggs and then she was sort of ‘helping’ Lily find the eggs and after awhile Lily counted the eggs and she had 8 and our of nowhere Lindsay said, “Okay, you have 8. You only have 3 more to find!” ????? Did she just do math? In her HEAD?? She didn’t count on her fingers or anything. She just knew it. It was incredible. Jeff and I looked at each other as if to make sure we both heard her correctly. She is just so stinkin’ smart!