By The Numbers

Liam wanted to jump on the bed before brushing his teeth so I asked him how many times he wanted to jump. He said five. When he jumped once, I said "that's one!" and he said "no, that's zero." His next jump was "one" and so on. It was so crafty that I went with it and let him do 6 jumps.

As a reward for potty training, Annika said she'd let him do something "four times... no, I'll let you do 5!" And Liam replied, with so much enthusiasm that from an adult it would sound sarcastic: "WOW, FIVE!?!? THAT'S AMAZING!!! WOAH! Five!"

Just before we sing him songs and leave his room for the night we talk about his day. As a stalling tactic, he says we're "almost done" (i.e. not quite done yet) when we start to sing. So, we ask him what he wants to add. Sometimes we say "OK, you tell us 4 more things about your day." We get some funny responses.
One was: "1, 2, 3, 4."
Another was: "Wiggles!" (We said "OK, that's one" and he said "No, that's two!" as if to say "the Wiggles are so great, just saying their name takes up two slots.")