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The other day Alice said, "I'm counting" and then proceeded to count the squares on the back of one of the book blocks. FYI a book block is one of the boxes that comes with 9 "mini-books". The back of the book block has a picture of each of the covers of the mini-books, in a 3x3 grid. So, Alice counted, "1, 2, 3, 4, 5...7, 5, 7, 5, 7." Clearly she forgot about 6, knew something was wrong and continued into Aliceland.

More of the same

Typical 2 year old stuff from Alice today. I had to put Liz to sleep while Alice was in the bath. After a few minutes, I heard the water draining. When I returned to the bathroom she had neatly put all the toys (including stacking all the stacking cups in order), draped all the washcloths over the spigot, drained the water and was in the process of pulling up the no-slip bath mat from the bottom of the tub.

ABC

She did it! The other day, Alice recited the entire alphabet in the car on the way home from picking Lizzie up at school. 2 years, 4.5 months old. Phew!

Order

Alice has always been a very ordered and organized little individual. Everything has its place in her world. If she's going to put her markers in a cup or basket, she puts gets all of them. I've mentioned before that she keeps Yaddie in a special place (although not so much an more). Another example, when she eats grapes she till take all of the grapes off the vine and put them back in her bowl before she starts to eat them. Seriously, have you ever seen a 2 year old do that? She still cleans up her toys and spills when asked to do so.