Whole World in My Hands

When Rafeh and I would play hide-and-seek, I would be left doing the counting regardless of whose turn it is to hide. He's just learning his numbers, so my he would repeat each number as I would say it. It made me think I could just about say anything in a sequence and he would take that to mean numbers. Such is the delight in playing with an innocent mind.
So the numbers one through ten could have names of vegetables like, aik, bhindi, chikkander, karaila and so on...

Reminds me of the time when I was teaching Sehyr "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" with the actions, and when it came to making a diamond in the sky, I taught her that the diamond was actually called, "DeBeers." So for a while after that, whenever I would tell Sehyr to show me DeBeers, she's make a diamond shape with her hands.

Such habits make me a lousy candidate for a baby-sitter unless the parents were people who are unaware of my tendencies.