What time is it?

Time goes by so quickly -- a whole week past without a post. (We have good reasons, though, like the two day case of the vomits that the beloved child had last week. Also, thanks for those who have sent good wishes for my mother who some of you know had emergency heart surgery last week. As an update, they moved her from critical care yesterday and then sent her home today! Zeke and I will likely make a trek back to the old homestead soon to check on his grandma.)

It makes the passage of time gets a little easier when your baby can tell time it is, though. Last week, Zeke kept repeating "five" and then "two". I didn't know what he was trying to tell me but then he said "ten" and pointed to the clock. Don't you know -- it was 10:25! This is not quite the same thing as telling time, I know, but he was reading the clock.

Zeke cannot count or recite his numbers in order, but he can recognize and say numbers one to ten. He frequently points to numbers and tells us what the number is. He can also recognize and say a few letters in the alphabet. He loves playing with his toy laptop which has a lot of letter recognition games and he gets a surprising number of questions right.

This may be perfectly normal for children at 22 months to be developing early literacy and numeracy like this -- I don't know -- but it just perfectly knocks me over every time he "reads." Just a few weeks ago I was worried about the fact he wasn't talking at all and now he is saying and identifying numbers and letters. Simply astounding to me how things go.