Opposites, verbs, counting

Liam is learning about opposites. Thursday night we were sitting at the table and Liam was in his highchair. He pointed to the living room which was lighted up with an overhead fixture and a lamp and said, "Light." Then he pointed to the kitchen window, and said "Dark." Sure enough, it was dark outside.

This morning while I was eating my breakfast he wanted to play with the box his breakfast bars came in. He lifted the box up above his head and said, "up high." Then he put it down on the tray and said, "down low." I have been playing "up high, down low" with him for a while, but usually he just puts his hands up and down and I say the words.

Liam has been using lots of verbs lately. Words like: go, walk, help, run, peeking, and (just now) read. We went for a walk yesterday with Liam in the stroller. He really enjoyed it. The first thing he said this morning was "go." Then "walk." Actually, I'm not sure if walk is a noun or a verb in this case....

I have thought for a while that Liam knew how much "two" was. He would say "two" when he had two spoons in his hands, or two Cheez-its. But it didn't seem like he knew how much "one" was. Yesterday, however, Liam was with Allen in the bathroom. Liam's shoe came off and he gave it to Allen and said, "one." Then Allen put the shoe back on and said, "How many shoes do you have now?" Liam said, "Two."

This morning Liam was playing with his blocks. He put one block on top of the stack and said, "One." Then he put another block on top and said, "Two."