Current Mood: Shocked!
Holy Cow!!! Is all I can say! Mia never ceases to amaze me! She truly is, what her Grandpa Pizano calls her, "Amazin' Mia!". Today she counted to 10 all by herself!! No she wasn't repeating what I was saying, or copying, or anything like that. She did it alone, and completely by herself! Granted she has been attempting to count since she was 20 months old (she repeated Elmo from 1-7) but never has she counted on her own with zero encouragement!
Recently she has grown more and more interested in the concept of counting and counting things. I have always tried to incorporate some sort of counting during our daily routines and she loves it. She has counted to 10 but its always when I do it with her. Well today was completely different!
It happened right after her nap. Both Adrian and I were in her room chatting on her bed. Mia was running around playing with toys and just doing her own thing. Then Adrian and I really got into our conversation and weren't really paying much attention to Mia. I had my leg hung over the bed and before I knew it, Mia tried to straddle it as if it was a horse. Then she started to bounce up and down. I was ignoring her, not purposely, but I was really into my conversation with Adrian. I could hear her playing in the background (you know a Mama never truly takes 100% attention off of their kids) and sure enough I started hearing her count!
It caught my ear right away since she rarely gets past 3 when she counts alone.
"5....6.....7..."
Now my attention was fully on her. I looked at Adrian and we both had the shocked look on our face and were thinking the same thing, "Is she going to count all the way to 10?" We also knew not to bring attention to it since Mia tends to get shy and stops whatever she is doing if you bring attention to her.
"8...9..."
"Go Mia Go!" I was cheering her on in my head!
"10!!!!"
I sprang up so excited! I couldn't believe I just heard her count all by herself for the first time! I went to hug her but of course she got mad. She didn't want the attention and ran off. Oh well... at least she isn't a big ham! haha
I am so proud of her!!! She is growing up so fast and before my eyes. She barely turned 2 less than a month ago and she can already count to 10!!!
Whats next?! The alphabet. I have semi been working with her on this only recently. She has little magnets with the letters on them that she loves to play with so everyday I teach her a new letter. To my surprise she does retain whatever I taught her the day before. Before I started doing this she already knew and could point out and recognize the letters "C, R, and Y" (I give Elmo and Between the Lions credit for those) but now she can say, recognize and point out "A, W, and B"!! I am so proud of my little munchkin!!
