I'm not sure if I've mentioned before about Charlotte's complete disinterest in "symbols" (i.e. letters and numbers). She loves the alphabet song and enjoys counting, but the actual letter A or number 9 symbol, no interest at all. Aside from occasionally rearranging the magnetic letters on the fridge, she just ignores them pretty much.
So I decided to do a little experiment the other night. I was reading this horrible cheap pop-up book we inherited third-hand. For some reason she loves it. So we were counting the teddy bears on one page, and she was explaining to me that the baby sheep is called a lamb and lambs say Baaaa and the teddy bear was feeding the lamb with a bottle of milk, and over there is a purple butterfly, etc etc. She was clearly enthralled. So I said, "Charlotte, what's this letter?" ::crickets:: So I tried, "I see the letter B. Can you find the B?"
And suddenly her feet were the most interesting thing in the universe.
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