Friday, October 16, 2009

Reading and Counting

Luke really loves books. He surprised me one night a couple of months ago by asking for a book when I put him into his crib for the night. Since then, it's become part of the bedtime ritual; he gets a book or two to read in bed. When I told the pediatrician this at Luke's 18-month appointment he was very amused and said that he didn't think he'd ever heard of a child this young asking for books to read in bed, but that he didn't think it would hurt.

Here's a video of Luke reading Sheep in a Jeep, a story about sheep who get their Jeep stuck in the mud and then crash it into a tree.
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When Luke is in the right mood, he can count without any help. One time he counted all the way up to 12 while I was changing his diaper! But it's a little like that dancing/singing frog in the old Looney Tunes cartoon. That is, when we try to capture it on video he won't do it. Here's the best we've been able to capture. You can hear Matt cheating at the end by feeding Luke "6."

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