We've been trying a new reward system for potty training. Actually resurrecting an old one we used before with no luck, but we're out of new ideas, so we thought we'd try recycling. The sticker chart. He gets one sticker for a pee pee and two stickers for a poo poo. We've just started doing this yesterday and it's been surprisingly successful!
But that's not what this post is about.
Just now, I took Alex to the potty. He peed and said "I get one sticker for a pee pee!". We waited a while and he pooped and said "I get TWO stickers for a poo poo!" Then I said "Hey! That's awesome Buddy! How many stickers do you get to put on your chart?" And without missing a beat he shouted "THREE!"
He can add? HE CAN ADD!?!?!
When did this happen? We've been working on counting for a long time, but never really mathematics at all. This was really the first time I'd even suggested the idea of adding them together to get another number, and here he already knew! Of course, it could have been a fluke. Three happens to be his very favorite number at the moment owing to the fact that he just turned three and loves to tell people that, but I like to think my son is simply a genius, figuring out the basics of addition all by his little self.
We have told you he is UBER smart!
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