Tonight, Genevieve is trying desperately to put herself to sleep. After announcing that five plus four is nine — it’s dark in the room beyond the computer screen, so I can’t see if she is using her fingers to determine this — she moved on to raw counting. She just counted her way to one hundred ninety-nine, and no, one billion is not the next number. After a brief discussion about how it was appropriate that two hundred would be the next number, she said, “Oh, and then is it three hundred?”
“Yes, after you count all of the two hundreds.”
“Wow, that’s gonna take a long time.”
Mmm-hmm, that’s the point, honey.
That's how I put myself to sleep sometimes, only counting backwards. She's a smart cookie.
ReplyDeleteI hope you start with a big number for counting backwards... or maybe you "go negative" if you get to zero.
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