Lest anyone get the impression that it’s all fun and games around here, there’s learnin’ going on too! Emrick loves numbers right now, the number seven in particular. He will ask us to draw numbers over and over on whatever he happens to be coloring on at the moment. He recognizes all ten digits, and knows the numbers up to twelve. I have a flashcard app on my phone that will show the numbers 1 through 50 in order. If you get him started on anything higher than twelve, he recognizes the pattern and will continue it, for example if I show him a 21 and say “twenty-one”, then he will recognize 22 and say “twenty-two”, on up to “three-ten”, which is 30. He’s not quite as good without the actual numbers in front of him, but he can usually count my fingers up to five.<\/p>\n