Petra snoring, peek-a-booing, and counting<\/a><\/p>\n The counting is a mixture of English and Swedish; after Lydia says, “One,” Petra continues, “two, three, \u00e5tta (8), nio (9), elva (11), tolv (12) … elva, elva, tolv … elva, tolv … elva, elva, tolv … elva, tolv.” When we go up the stairs together, she counts every step, “\u00e5tta, nio, \u00e5tta, nio.” I think there must be something pleasing to little kids about those two words together, because Tage fixated on them as well when he was a toddler. Until he was at least three, every number he saw was “\u00e5tta-nio,” which I think is particularly funny given that we really don’t speak Swedish here at home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Petra snoring, peek-a-booing, and counting The counting is a mixture of English and Swedish; after Lydia says, “One,” Petra continues, “two, three, \u00e5tta (8), nio (9), elva (11), tolv (12) … elva, elva, tolv … elva, tolv … elva, elva, tolv … elva, tolv.” When we go up the stairs together, she counts every step,… Read More Playing the Ham<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}