While I am glad Jayden knows his numbers, he loves to ‘count’ his own way. He actually knows how to count from 1 to 10 perfectly well (by that I mean in proper sequence) but being the cheeky little monster that he is, he loves to count ‘Jayden style’ ie, jumping over numbers.

He’d start off fine … 1, 2, 3 … then jumps straight through to 8, 9, 10 and back again to run through the missing digits.

Entertaining once or twice, irritating when done too often with the cheeky grin and downright frustrating when you are trying to count level scoops of milk powder.

He has a habit of perching himself at the safety gate (barricading the kitchen from the living room) and he’d shout out the numbers as I empty the scoops into the milk containers. It almost drives me insane as I try to correct him and keep track of what count I was at. BAH humbug. He better learn to scoop his own milk powder if he keeps this up. I’m resigning from that position.