18 November 2007

How Many Feet?

Yesterday morning I got up early to make a salad for a meeting I was going to. When I crawled back into bed to cuddle with Brett, Claire was in my bed. Brett pushed her over a little and in a groggy voice she cried out, "I'm going to fall off." Brett replied, "You will not, you have 3 feet." A confused little voice replied, "I do not, I have two feet." I started to laugh at the homophones they were using. Brett asked what was so funny. I explained that he meant distance or space and Claire was talking about the feet that she uses to walk. Brett asked Claire how many feet she had and she grabbed them and counted, "ONE - TWO." Then she counted her toes. She first counted six on one foot, then she counted four on the same foot, and finally Brett grabbed her toes while she counted and she decided that she had five on each foot.

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