Prodigious

I know I’m slacking in putting up stuff here, but I’ve been busy. Doing… stuff. Y’know.

 

Anyhow, I just want to take a moment here to state for the record that as of March 5th 2009, at age 22 months and 2 days, Peter can identify numbers. Yes, thanks to the digits on the sides of the engines of Thomas and his friends, Peter knows the numbers. He already can point out the difference between a steam engine as opposed to a diesel, and in his Richard Scarry picture book he can point to a car, truck, bus or whatever when asked (and he’ll always point to a duck when he sees one, no matter where we are). But this morning I decided to ask if he could point to the number 4 on Gordon’s coal tender, and he pointed right at it. He went on to point to the number 3 on Henry’s coal tender, the number 1 on the side of Thomas, and then later he pointed to the 6 on both sides of his toy Percy.

 

Next: long division.

 

 

Oh, and we brought our car in for an all-day servicing this morning, and got a loaner from the dealership while Old Blue is getting pretty much everything replaced. The loaner was a small, black, sporty sedan. Peter did not care for it at all, and he let us know. But we’ll have our car back tomorrow morning, so it shouldn’t be so bad. I hope...