Samuel and Numbers

Numbers just make sense to Samuel.  He picks up on anything numbers related so quickly.  I feel like I don't even have to really teach it to him, he just gets it.  He has always had a love for numbers, especially for anything related to time/clocks.

• Last night, Samuel was in bed and calling Daryl to come in and snuggle with him.  Daryl told him, "I'll be there in just a minute."  When Daryl crawled in with Samuel, Samuel said to him, "Daddy, that was 1 minute and 12 seconds!"  When Daryl asked him how he knew that, Samuel said, "Because I started counting and I said 58, 59, 1 minute, and then I started over again and counted 1, 2, 3, all the way up to 12!"
• Today the kids played outside in the snow for 2 1/2 hours so we didn't eat lunch until 2pm.  We were eating supper around 6pm and Samuel was asking us if we were so surprised at how much he was eating "because I just ate lunch (looking at the clock and counting) . . . 4 hours ago!"  He told us he figured it out by counting the hours backwards starting at 6 and going back until the 2.
• He totally has the clock figured out . . . counting by 5s etc to figure out how many minutes and even correcting us if we say "in 20 minutes" if it is really 18 or 19 minutes by saying, "Mommy, not quite 20 minutes but more like 18 or 19."  Little smarty pants!