Creative Counting

Keely's current obsession is with baby dolls, including her foam dinosaurs, elmos, and bunnies. Last night while I was working in our bedroom she brought in ALL of her babies and lined them up along the edge of the bed. She kept telling me "Shhhh. Babies Night-night". Then she brought in a plastic toy smurf (yes, a McDonalds's happy meal toy) and said "smurf crying". When I asked why the smurf was crying she said because "he has to go night-night". Because of COURSE going to bed = tears. (It has here recently.) Then I asked how many babies she had and she counted 1-9 perfectly. Though I don't know that it actually correlated with the babies. When I asked what came after 9, she picked up the baby on the end (stuffed Elmo) and shouted "ELMO!"