Though the weather was glorious and spring like (and the groundhog predicted an early spring!) we spent most of our day indoors. A morning doctor’s appointment ruffled our feathers and morning journal was forgotten.

After lunch, Alden opened his Lego store, which consists of several little figures and “set ups” of his own creation, on his small work table in the kitchen. I chose a 20 cent piece, which was a remarkable bargain, as it came with three mini figures and a SLIDE, for crying out loud. I presented Alden with three nickels and five pennies in a heap and asked him if I had enough. He laid them out carefully: nickel, nickel, penny, penny, penny, penny, penny, nickel.

He pointed to the first nickel, “five?”

“Yes, five.”

“Five, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen…twenty! Yes, you have enough. Here!”

And that was math for the day.