Xander Week 80 - How Old Are You?
June 16, 2008
I recently decided that it would be fun to start teaching Xander to tell us how old he is. For some background context, we had been reading a counting book quite a bit, and Xander surprised us when he could tell us what the next number would be (we’d say one… he’d say two…, three… four… five) only up to five, but it was pretty funny. This only lasted a little while before Xander became fixated on the numbers four and five. Now when he “counts” it’s “four… five… four… five… etc.”
This turned out to be stumbling block when trying to teach Xander his age. We started by teaching him “two” since in a few months he will be two, and we figured why confuse the kid with more numbers? Unfortunately, since he’s fixated on four and five, when you ask him how old he is, he immediately responds “four” - every time. And if you correct him and say he’s two, he responds, “I’m four!” We could do this for hours… Once in a while he adds a “ty” on the end, so he says “I’m forty!” It’s all very entertaining, and since it’s really not that big of a deal, we always get a chuckle when Xander tells us he’s four. Sometimes I respond by telling him if he’s four then he needs to start using the big boy potty!
