she can count & other videos

I meant to put this post up yesterday.  But then I forgot.  So you get two today.  I know.  You're super excited :o).

I'm 95% sure that I forgot to mention this, but on July 3rd we discovered that Ryann could count to ten.  (That sounds really dramatic including the date and all, but of course I need it for memory keeping purposes :o).  The weekend of the fourth I had been trying to teach Ryann to respond to the 'how old are you' question with, of course, one!  She finally got it down.  So when we finally woke up her daddy a little later, I asked her, 'Ryann, how old are you?'  She eagerly replied 'one!!'  I said 'That's right!  You are one!'  And then she said 'twoooo'.  Chris and I looked at each other baffled.  So I repeated her, 'two?'  She said 'threeeee'.  This continued all the way to eight.  We were surprised and impressed.

Now she can make it to ten.  She still won't go farther than two all by herself, but she definitely knows her numbers!  She can also recognize one, five, eight and nine when she sees them.  The grocery store is an exciting place now :o).  Here is a video of her counting.

Ry can also recognize all of the letters.  She gets tripped up on E a lot, and sometimes a few others, but for the most part she has it down.  And she can get through almost the whole alphabet in the same fashion she does numbers, I repeat what she said, and she tells me the next letter.  This video is of her doing flash cards.  And sorry if these videos are choppy.  On my computer they look funny in firefox, but fine in safari.

And just a couple other randoms.  I tried to show Ryann how penguins walk.  Here is her version:

Bedtime at our house isn't calm and quiet.  For some reason that is when Ry is the most giggly, so we go with it.

I should be back soon with our week in iphone pics.  Depends on how long it takes me to weed them down.  I took several...