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- AC and I did one of those simultaneous parental double-takes two evenings ago in the back yard. Sam walked down a short flight of rail-less concrete steps all by herself and counted each step as she went: “one, two, three.”
“Did she just walk down the steps all by herself?”
“Wait, did she she just count to three?!”
After months of “one two, one two” Sam now goes up to three. Beyond that, though, she does a peculiar kind of subtraction. When I ask her how many toes she has on one foot, for example, she replies “one, two, three, two …”
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Walking home from a trip to the post office this afternoon, we saw a helicopter flying over head. Sam pointed to it and said “heh cop ter?” When I said yes, she then added “type ah air pane?” It took me a minute and then I recognized what she was trying to say. “Oh, you mean ‘type of airplane?’ Yes! A helicopter is a type of airplane.” I think I told her that once when she was confusing airplane and helicopter. That girl is always listening.
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Most evenings Sam and I take a bath together. Her favorite thing lately is to wash Mommy. Tonight she told me to “lean back” (“lee back”) so she could pour water on my stomach.
That killed me.
