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Tonight my son decided to make apple sauce and pea muffins out of his dinner. He put the peas in his applesauce, mixed it up, and dumped out his muffin. Usually, he likes muffins, but not this one. So, no dinner for him tonight.

We played around, took a bath, read some books and then he said his tummy hurt.  Imagine that.  So I asked him what he wanted to eat and he told me grapes.  I asked him how many and he told me five.  So I got him ten!!  He proceeded to tell me that was not five so I told him to count them.

He pointed to the first one and said “One, Two, Three, Four, Five, six, eight, seven, nine, ten!”  He was pretty much right, I gave him too many.  He ate all of them and asked me for five more.  This time I gave him five and he counted them again.  We played that game at least two more times before he had enough grapes.

It is funny how little kids want to learn so much that everything becomes an opportunity to learn.  Who knew that skipping dinner would turn into a chance to work on counting.  It was a lot of fun for both of us and he worked on his counting.  Next, we need to do calculus with Oreo Cookies!!