When something suddenly clicks!

Wow! I think I've been waiting for this moment without even really knowing it. It is SO FUN to see Mane learn things. I remember being amazed all through her babyhood as she learned how to grasp and roll and crawl and walk. Now I'm starting to see that with knowledge.

So, here's the story... We've always played around with counting money. She seemed to understand how much each coin was worth and how to add them up to dollars. Then, yesterday we did the Math U See lesson where the unit blocks represent pennies, the ten blocks represent dimes, and the hundered blocks represent dollars. Mane's response? "MAMA, you can use MATH to count money?!!!" She then proceeded to dump out her piggy bank and count the entire contents. She counted $12.53 in coins. It wasn't that she used any different method than we had always used to help her count coins, but she kept exclaiming over and over again about how it easy it was, and it was clear that SOMETHING finally made sense to her about counting coins. It was so fun to see her so excited.