Bailey has had a fascination with numbers for awhile now. He always asks us to read the 'educational' type books he has (like about numbers or the ABCs) and not the 'stories'. Whenever we walk around the neighbourhood he has to stop at every letterbox to point at the numbers, number plates, the street electricity box things, every time he sees one anywhere he has to stop and touch it. He can tell the difference between a letter and a number, and can find a number anywhere. If a book just has words and we ask him to show us a number he turns it over and shows us the ISBN or barcode number. He is good at counting too, he'll count how many wheels on trucks and toys and the spot parts on the blocks and points to each thing only one time.
When we are doing drawing and I put numbers on the paper he gets so excited.
Not sure if this is normal behaviour for a 17 month old, but yeah Bailey just loves numbers. Will be interesting when he can talk to see if he starts 'counting' himself and saying the numbers himself.
Pointing out the numbers on the side of planks of wood at his Grandads.
Pointing out the numbers on the side of planks of wood at his Grandads.
Hehe Tim just said that photo looks like Bailey is doing graffiti on the wood! :-p
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